And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Work is love made visible.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

-- Oscar Wilde

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

-- Virginia Woolf

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

-- Virginia Woolf

One must always be drunk. That is everything: the only question.

-- Charles Baudelaire

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

-- William Shakespeare

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high... Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

-- Rabindranath Tagore