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This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the...more

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Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin...more

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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so t...more

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Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

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I burn, I shiver, out of this sun, into this shadow.

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Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the...more

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I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is...more

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It is no use trying to sum people up.

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I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.But he never liked anyone who--our friends,' said Clarissa; and could have bitten her tongue...more

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With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

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Far rather would she that he were dead! She could not sit beside him when he stared so and did not see her and made everything terrible; sky and tree,...more

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But we-' she glanced at him as if to ascertain his position, 'we see each other only now and then-''Like lights in a storm-''In the midst of a hurrica...more

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She was married, true; but if one's husband was always sailing round Cape Horn, was it marriage? If one liked him, was it marriage? If one liked other...more

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How then did it work out, this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it was liking one felt, or...more

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So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball