Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes… — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill. — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face". — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill. — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one… — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer. — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon. — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
“Suddenly I heard Virginia’s voice calling to me from the sitting room window: “Hitler is making a speech.” I shouted back, “I shan’t come.… — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
