"I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say “This...

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.
~ Virginia Woolf ~












The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only...
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"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
"Fear no more," said Clarissa. Fear no more the heat o' the sun; for the shock of Lady Bruton asking Richard to lunch without her made the moment in wh...
"Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.
"This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears.
"Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his fun, for it was ...
"First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
"Life stand still here.
"What she liked was simply life. "That's what i did it for," she said, speaking aloud to life... Could any man understand what she meant, either, about...
"It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
"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.
"Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. Roll up that tender air and the plant dies, the colour fades. The earth we walk on is a par...
"He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
"The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.