Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
Virginia WoolfOur apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.
Virginia WoolfAs an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.
Virginia WoolfHe was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.
Virginia Woolf