Eloquent, profoundly melancholic, intelligent and deeply wise, sentimental and provocative yet always raw in terms of emotion, Virginia Woolf was a woman entirely ahead of her time. This is made with much love and respect in her memory.

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Thoughts are divine. Virginia Woolf, Orlando - ? Oct 29th 2012
Yet she could not resist sometimes yielding to the charm of a woman, not a girl, of a woman confessing, as to her they often did, some scrape, some folly. And whether it was pity, or their beauty, or some accident — like a faint scent, or a violin next door (so strange is the power of sounds at certain moments), she did undoubtedly then feel what men felt. Only for a moment; but it was enough. It was a sudden revelation, a tinge like a blush which one tried to check and then, as it spread, one yielded to its expansion, and rushed to the farthest verge and there quivered and felt the world come closer, swollen with some astonishing significance, some pressure of rapture, which split its thin skin and gushed and poured with an extraordinary alleviation over the cracks and sores! Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway - ? Sep 12th 2012
So the days pass, and I ask myself sometimes whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life; whether this is living. I should like to take the globe in my hands and feel it quietly, round, smooth, heavy. And so hold it, day after day. Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 28 November 1928. (via violentwavesofemotion) - ? Sep 9th 2012
One must love everything. Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room (via knif3ears)

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- ? Aug 20th 2012
What can this sorrow be? It is brewed by the earth itself. It comes from the houses on the coast. We start transparent, and then the cloud thickens. All history backs our pane of glass. To escape is vain. Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room. - ? Jul 28th 2012
Such is the incomprehensible combination, such is the complexity of things, that as I descend the staircase I do not know which is sorrow, which joy. I am upheld by pillars, shored up on either side by stark emotions; but which is sorrow, which is joy? I ask, and do not know, only that I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world. Virginia Woolf, The Waves. - ? Jul 27th 2012
“Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotch-potch of impulses, our perpetual miracle — for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death: let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.” - Virginia Woolf from “Montaigne”.

“Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotch-potch of impulses, our perpetual miracle — for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death: let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.” - Virginia Woolf from “Montaigne”.

Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer, but only that shell of a person which is seen by other people - what an airless, shallow, bald, prominent world it becomes! A world not to be lived in. Virginia Woolf, Between The Acts. (via violentwavesofemotion) - ? Jul 14th 2012
I do not suppose you know of how seperate I feel myself of all my contemporaries. Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 19 August 1929. - ? Jul 11th 2012
For the reading of these books seems to perform a curious couching operation on the senses; one sees more intensely afterwards; the world seems bared of its covering and given an intenser life. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (via we-live-and—breathe-words) - ? Jul 10th 2012
What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives me of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment. Virginia Woolf from a diary entry, dated 21 August 1927. - ? Jul 9th 2012
Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse.

Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse.

She looked before she drank. Looking was part of drinking. Why waste sensation, she seemed to ask, why waste a single drop that can be pressed out of this ripe, this melting, this adorable world? Then she drank. And the air round her became threaded with sensation. Virginia Woolf, Between The Acts. - ? Jul 1st 2012
She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable —- this interminable life. Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway. - ? Jun 22nd 2012
Passing, glimpsing, everything seems accidentally but miraculously sprinkled with beauty. Virginia Woolf, Street Hunting: A London Adventure. - ? Jun 19th 2012