Virginia Woolf

England
25 Jan 1882 // 28 Mar 1941
Writer

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Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

The Waves
Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the most diseased; to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it.

The Common Reader
By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. It's the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

Orlando
I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

The Waves
I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

The Waves
Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins - of happiness and unhappiness.

Jacob's Room
I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.
I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.

Orlando
Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.

Orlando
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
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