Virginia Woolf

Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”) ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#violets #death

I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#desire #art

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#love

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#men

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#business

For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#communication

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#christiana-rossetti #inspiration #literature #vain #victorian-literature

For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#beauty

You send a girl to school in order to make friends - the right sort. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#friendship

You cannot, it seems, let children run about the streets. People who have seen them running wild in Russia say that the sight is not a pleasant one. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#humour #humor