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Virginia Woolf ..
But looking for eloquent phrases I found none to stand beside your name.

(25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) 


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“I am no longer young… My life has passed like a ripple in water.”

— Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

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“My dear Virginia, Five thousand words are no drawback, when the words are yours.”

— T. S. Eliot in a letter to Virginia Woolf (via wavingtovirginia)

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Virginia Woolf’s corrected proofs for To The Lighthouse, at the Smith College Rare Book Room

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“I see myself as a fish in a stream; deflected; held in place;but cannot describe the stream.”

— Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being

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Portraits of Virginia Woolf taken by George Charles Beresford July 1902.

“Unconsciously she had been walking faster and faster, her body trying to outrun her mind; but she was now on the summit of a little hillock of earth which rose above the river and displayed the valley. She was no longer able to juggle with several ideas, but must deal with the most persistent, and a kind of melancholy replaced her excitement. She sank down on to the earth clasping her knees together, and looking blankly in front of her.”

— Virginia Woolf, from The Voyage Out

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squrrelgirl:

look at this Cool Matchbook

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“I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love; love makes knots; love brutally tears them apart. I have been knotted; I have been torn apart.”

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography

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Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography

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“… the idea of some continuous stream, not solely of human thought, but of the ship, the night etc., all flowing together: intersected by the arrival of the bright moths. A man and a woman are to be sitting at table talking. Or shall they remain silent? It is to be a love story […] 

 — Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated, 18 June 1927

Short inspirational video on The Waves directed by Daria Darinskaya

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“Why can’t you write? I can’t stop writing. I’m ashamed to think how many stories I’ve written this month, and can hardly bear to keep my fingers off a new novel[…]”

— Virginia Woolf in a letter to Vita Sackville-West dated 27 May 1925

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gnossienne: “ “By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. ‘Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.” ”

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“By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. ‘Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”
bookphile: “A Room of One’s Own x ”

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A Room of One’s Own x

“All last night I dreamt of Katherine Mansfield & wonder what dreams are; often evoke so much more emotion, than thinking does—almost as if she came back in person & was outside one, actively making one feel; instead of a figment called up & recollected, as she is, now, if I think of her. Yet some emotion lingers on the day after a dream; even though I’ve now almost forgotten what happened in the dream, except that she was lying on a sofa in a room high up, & a great many sad faced women were round her. Yet somehow I got the feel of her, & of her as if alive again, more than by day.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated, 7 July 1928

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