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Literary Style: 15 Writers' Bedrooms
(Source: amayasora2992, via booklover)
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"For what can one know even of the people one lives with every day? she asked. Are we not all prisoners? She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched at the wall of his cell, and she had felt that was true of life—one scratched on the wall."
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway(Source: awritersruminations, via libraryland)
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‘No,’ she said. ‘Some things you don’t understand, of course.’
‘Of course,’ Helen agreed. ‘So now you can go ahead and be a person on your own account,’ she added.
The vision of her own personality, of herself as a real everlasting thing, different from anything else, unmergeable, like the sea or the wind, flashed into Rachel’s mind, and she became profoundly excited at the thought of living.
"- Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out(Source: hauntingcontradiction, via awritersruminations)
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"Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street."
- Virginia Woolf, The Waves(Source: growing-orbits, via proustitute)
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“You have overheard scraps of talk that filled you with amazement. You have gone to bed at night bewildered by the complexity of your feelings. In one day thousands of ideas have coursed through your brains; thousands of emotions have met, collided and disappeared in astonishing disorder.”
Virginia Woolf(Source: urukhai, via awritersruminations)
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"It seemed to her now that she wanted many more things than the love of one human being - the sea, the sky. She turned again and looked at the distant blue which was so smooth and serene where the sky met the sea; yes,she could not possibly want only one human being."
- Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out(Source: fuckyeahvirginiawoolf, via awritersruminations)
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"There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone."
- Virginia Woolf, The Waves(Source: fuckyeahvirginiawoolf, via proustitute)
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"How can I express the darkness?"
- Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 30 June 1927(Source: proustitute)
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"I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything."
- Virginia Woolf, Night And Day(Source: divine-despair)
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"Now is life very solid or very shifting? I am haunted by the two contradictions. This has gone on for ever; will last for ever; goes down to the bottom of the world—this moment I stand on."
- Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 4 January 1929(Source: proustitute)
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(via awritersruminations)
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