"Publication which would make readily available to a wide audience material that so richly illuminates the vision and sensibility of a writer whose contribution to the history of English literature was so profoundly individual could not but be a tribute honoring her memory." Editor's Note, p. 7

"The beliefs and values that underlie [Virginia Woolf's] work are shown in these pages to be an outgrowth of the sensibility which marked her responses to the world, from the very beginning, with a distinctive quality." Introduction, p. 11

"[Virginia Woolf] believed the individual identity to be always in flux, every moment changing its shape in response to the forces surrounding it ... the identity of the present moment ... is never static, never fixed like a fly in amber, but as subject to alteration as the consciousness that recalls it." Introduction, p. 12.

"The present moment is enriched by the past, but the past is...