Sometimes it seems to me that I shall never write out all the books I have in my head, because of the strain. The devilish thing about writing is that it calls upon every nerve to hold itself taut. This is exactly what I cannot do--

“I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers,…”

“Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.”

“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for …”

“thought Clarissa Dalloway, what a morning—fresh as if issued to children on a b…”