The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent, and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. He alone lives, while other people, slaves of ceremony, let life slip past them in a kind of dream.


The Common Reader (1925)

Virginia Woolf Quotes

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent, and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through ...

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent, and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through ...

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent, and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through ...

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent, and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through ...