“I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.”

Pt. 3: At Sea, Section 15
Islands in the Stream (1970)

Acres of Diamonds (1915)

Torture and Resistance in Iran, 1971

Vol. 1, pp. 4–5
A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts to the Present Day

New Year's Address to the Nation (1991)

Statement among his final dying words. [citation needed]
The Battle of Trafalgar (1805)

Response to a would be biographer in 1980, as quoted in "When Stephen met Sylvia" in The Guardian (24 April 2004) http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1201328,00.html
Context: I am very honoured by your wanting to write a life of me. But the fact is I regard my life as rather a failure in the only thing in which I wanted it to succeed. I have not written the books I ought to have written and I have written a lot of books I should not have written. My life as lived by me has been interesting to me but to write truthfully about it would probably cause much pain to people close to me — and I always feel that the feelings of the living are more important than the monuments of the dead.

of Die Brücke paintings in The Blaue Reiter Almanac
Quote from his letter to Franz Marc, 2 Febr. 1912, as cited in 'Lankheit 20'; quoted in Movement, Manifesto, Melee: The Modernist Group, 1910-1914, Milton A. Cohen, Lexington Books, Sep 14, 2004, p. 71
1910 - 1915

Source: All the Light We Cannot See