"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."
-- Virginia Woolf"I write to find out what I know."
-- Virginia Woolf"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
-- Virginia Woolf"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
-- Virginia Woolf"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
-- Virginia Woolf"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."
-- Virginia Woolf"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more."
-- Virginia Woolf"I am rooted, but I flow."
-- Virginia Woolf"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
-- Virginia Woolf"Happiness is in your ability to love others."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart."
-- Leo Tolstoy"The most important time is Now."
-- Leo Tolstoy"If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person."
-- Leo Tolstoy"He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking."
-- Leo Tolstoy"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness."
-- Leo Tolstoy"The only thing that we know is that we know nothing."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible."
-- Leo Tolstoy"The surest sign of the truth is simplicity and clarity."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings."
-- Leo Tolstoy"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already."
-- Leo Tolstoy"To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit."
-- Leo Tolstoy
