Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. – Virginia Woolf
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. – Virginia Woolf
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. – Virginia Woolf
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods. – Virginia Woolf
O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better… In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven. – Plato