I am rooted, but I flow. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2005). The Waves, p.86, Col…

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I am rooted, but I flow. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2005). The Waves, p.86, Collector's Library
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Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2016). The Waves, p.59, Virgini … ▶
Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and de … ▶
Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt. ✨ Virginia Wo … ▶
But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came. ✨ … ▶
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