
To the Lighthouse

odds to maintain her courage; to say: ‘But this is what I see; this is what I see,’
Virginia Woolf • To the Lighthouse
love that never attempted to clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of the human gain.
Virginia Woolf • To the Lighthouse
the progress of civilisation depend upon great men?
Virginia Woolf • To the Lighthouse
wasn’t crying only for that. She was crying for something else. We might all sit down and cry, she felt. But she did not know what for.
Virginia Woolf • To the Lighthouse
pursue truth with such astonishing
Virginia Woolf • To the Lighthouse
would like her to see him, gowned and hooded, walking in a procession.
Virginia Woolf • To the Lighthouse
She disliked anything that reminded her that she had been seen sitting thinking.
Virginia Woolf • To the Lighthouse
lack of consideration for other people’s
Virginia Woolf • To the Lighthouse
mixed with something more secret than she had ever spoken or shown in the course of all those days was an agony.