I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.
Virginia WoolfOne ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.
Virginia WoolfTravelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains.
Virginia WoolfSuppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer, but only that shell of a person which is seen by other people - what an airless, shallow, bald, prominent world it becomes! A world not to be lived in. As we face each other in omnibuses and underground railways we are looking into the mirror that accounts for the vagueness, the gleam of glassiness, in our eyes.
Virginia WoolfLet us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.
Virginia Woolf