Virginia Woolf
"Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent."
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"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more."
"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."
"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."