To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy.
Virginia WoolfTag: oneself
All extremes are dangerous. It is best to keep in the middle of the road, in the common ruts, however muddy.
Virginia WoolfTag: golden-mean
Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.
Virginia WoolfFor nothing matters except life; and, of course, order.
Virginia WoolfTo communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.
Virginia WoolfTag: friendship reading communication
Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the most diseased; to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it.
Virginia WoolfTag: communication
For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.
Virginia WoolfTag: sharing
Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions ― a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard ― can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.
Virginia WoolfThere is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
Virginia WoolfTag: imagination fact
We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.
Virginia WoolfTag: humanity
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