L'argent, sujet sordide s'il en est, qui joue un rôle si capital dans notre Destin, n'est plus sordide mais tragique quand sont en question non pas l'aisance et le statut social, mais l'honneur, la sincérité, la vie même.
- 1956 -
Virginia Woolf
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No son las catástrofes, los asesinatos, las muertes, las enfermedades las que nos envejecen y nos matan; es la manera como los demás miran y ríen y suben las escalinatas del bus
Par Virginia Woolf
No hay barrera, cerradura ni cerrojo que puedas imponer a la libertad de mi mente
Par Virginia Woolf
They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.]
Par Virginia Woolf
For the philosopher is right who says that nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy
Par Virginia Woolf
For the philosopher is right who says that nothing is thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy
Par Virginia Woolf
Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.
Par Virginia Woolf
He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
Par Virginia Woolf
By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
Par Virginia Woolf
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees
Par Virginia Woolf
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
Par Virginia Woolf
It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
Par Virginia Woolf
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
Par Virginia Woolf
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
Par Virginia Woolf
. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.
Par Virginia Woolf
With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.
Virginia Woolf