The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four Quotes

“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four: 1931-1935

“The summer is put away folded up in the drawer with other summers.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four: 1931-1935

“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four: 1931-1935

“Think of me, the uneducated child reading books in my room at 22 Hyde Park Gate -- now advanced to this glory... Yes; all that reading, I say, has borne this odd fruit. And I am pleased.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four: 1931-1935

“So we discuss suicide, and the ghosts as I say, change so oddly in my mind; like people who live, & are changed by what one hears of them.
- Diary, 17 Mar 1932, IV, p.83.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four: 1931-1935

“Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four: 1931-1935