Virginia Woolf

I am in the mood to destroy the world.

I am made of the same stuff as the universe.

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

I am not a man, but a mind.

The world is a dream, and we are the dreamers.

Life is a dream, and we are the dreamers.

A biography is a book that is never finished.

It is a curious fact that the soul of a man is a far more complex and mysterious thing than the soul of a woman.

The only way to write a biography is to write it as if it were a novel.

Language is a tool; it is not an end in itself.

I am rooted, but I flow.

The older one grows, the more one likes to hear of people one has known.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by it. I am tired of it.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly.

The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the freest possible expression, must be free of all external pressures.

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is a thing to be rowed in, but many books form a fleet, and to be on the bridge of a fleet is to be in command of the world.

Growing older is an awful bore, but the only alternative, so far as I can see, is to die.