February 2012
23 posts
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“There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in...”
– Virginia Woolf,The Waves.
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“This body, with all its capacities, seemed nothing — nothing at all. She had the...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway.
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“Don’t you remember, in early childhood, when, in play or talk, as one stepped...”
– Virginia Woolf (via themagiclantern & moonmoth) (via arsvitaest) (via crashinglybeautiful) (via awritersruminations) (via vwvw)
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“She actually said with an emotion that she seldom let appear, “Let me come with...”
– Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse.
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“I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via lavandula)
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“How strange to oar one’s way through crowds seeing life through hollow eyes,...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves.
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“She tried to console herself with the reflection that one never knows how far...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out.
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“She looked at him; her look, passing through all that time and that emotion,...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway.
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“Their lack of concern for him was not the cause of his gloom; but some more...”
– Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room.
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“But she feared time itself,as if it had been a dial cut in impassive stone, the...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway.
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“All she wished was that this enormous flood of grief, this insatiable hunger for...”
– Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse.
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“Something deeply felt, was to create a gulf between ourselves and others, who,...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out.
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“How, then, she had asked herself, did one know one thing or another thing about...”
– Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse.
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“Our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest expressions...”
– Virginia Woolf, Orlando.
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“There is this mystery about people when they leave us.”
– The Waves, Virginia Woolf (via emilyyylouise)
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“For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying — what one...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway.
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“There can be no more forcible preaching than this where all actions and passions...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Pastons & Chaucer.
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“Words rose above the intolerably laden, dumb oxen plodding through the mud....”
– Virginia Woolf, Between The Acts.
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“Nature, uncompromising, untamed, was no looking-glass for happy faces, or...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Pastons & Chaucer.
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“She dreamt that she was walking down a long tunnel, which grew so narrow by...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out.
January 2012
21 posts
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“She had some queer power of fiddling on one’s nerves, turning one’s nerves to...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway.
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“They all looked at the lady. But she looked over their heads, looking at...”
– Virginia Woolf, Between The Acts.
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“We […] now come nearer; and shuffling closer on our perch in this...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves.
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“She stood there,completely paralyzed. For the worthlessness of this life did...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway.
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“Look here Vita — throw over your man, and we’ll go to Hampton Court and dine on...”
– Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West (via brainpickings)
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“The separate feelings of pleasure, interest, and pain, which combine to make up...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Vogage Out.
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“As usual she seemed to reserve something which she did not say, and he was...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out.
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“Here on this ring of grass we have sat together, bound by the tremendous power...”
– Virginia Woolf,The Waves.
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“Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter’s evening, when dusk almost hides...”
– Virginia Woolf, Night and Day (via literary verve)
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“She saw her canvas as if it had floated up and placed itself white and...”
– Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse.
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“The words went dashing and circling like wild hawks together among the belfries...”
– Virginia Woolf, Orlando.
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“She’d go on as if nothing had happened. That was the devilish part of her — this...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway.
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“Ah, but she was not merely a twitcher of individual strings; she was one who...”
– Virginia Woolf, Between The Acts.
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“One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.”
– Virginia Woolf, Orlando (via bookmania)
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“Observe how the soul is always casting her own lights and shadows; makes the...”
– Virginia Woolf, Montaigne.
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“I watch the rain glisten on the tiles till they shine like a policeman’s...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves.
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“Gathering a desperate courage she would urge her own exemption from the...”
– Virginia Woolf,To The Lighthouse.
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“Communication is health; communication is truth; communication is happiness. To...”
– Virginia Woolf, Montaigne.
December 2011
8 posts
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“Then, for that moment, she had seen an illumination; a match burning in a...”
– Virginia Woolf,To The Lighthouse.
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“The words are indistinguishable though the meaning is plain enough — love,...”
– Virginia Woolf, The String Quartet.
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“The ghost of convention rose to the surface, as a blush or a tear rises to the...”
– Virginia Woolf, Between The Acts.
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“Very gently and quietly, almost as if it were the blood singing in her veins, or...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out.
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“Perhaps” is one of his favourite expressions; “perhaps” and “I think” and all...”
– Virginia Woolf,Montaigne.