I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure. ✨ The Di…

Virginia Woolf
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I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure. ✨ The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1920-1924.
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We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Vi … ▶
Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air? Could it be, even for elderly peo … ▶
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callou … ▶
To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and pro … ▶
Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1990). A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909, Vintage

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