Author of quotes: Virginia Woolf

Whatever he does, he will always pursue, hunt down and exterminate tyranny and despotism, that's what he calls it, when people are forced to do what they do not want, when they are deprived of the right to vote.

She was glad to be silent on her own, to rest in the midst of the hustle and confusion of human relations. Who knows who we are? What do we feel? Who knows, even in a moment of intimacy?

Everything that seemed simple while we were enjoying theories, in fact, turns into a puzzling complexity.

His boundless self-pity, his need for sympathy, pooled under her feet, and she, a miserable sinner, did nothing but pick up her skirts a little so as not to get wet.

This world is not very good, for seventy years she was already convinced.

The meaning of life is not only in bed, he thought, returning again to Balzac and Scott, to the English novel and the French novel.

Like a forest they make noise, like falling leaves.

It is so beautiful, this love touches so much, but it is also the most stupid, the most barbaric of passions.

She will never recognize him. He will never recognize her. All human relationships are like that, and the worst relationship is between a man and a woman. These are insincere to the limit.

Why live? Is it worth, you ask yourself, the continuation of the human race all these efforts? Is it really that tempting? Are we attractive as a species? Stupid questions, empty questions, questions you wouldn't ask yourself if you were busy with work.

Again she felt defenseless in the face of the old enemy - life.

Nancy, after dinner, was about to sneak upstairs from the nightmare of nepotism.

According to her, to be honest, it's better to be idiots than smart people who write dissertations.

Light here requires shadow there.