Maxioms by Virginia Woolf
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too read more
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.
