July 2011
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The Waves (via rebeccaartemisa)
“And I know I must go on doing this dance on hot bricks till I die”
– Virginia Woolf,Diary Entry,1st of March 1937. (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
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The Love of Reading by Virginia Woolf
© National Portrait Gallery, London
At this late hour of the world’s history books are to be found in every room of the house – in the nursery, in the drawing room, in the dining room, in the kitchen. And in some houses they have collected so that they have to be accommodated with a room of their own. Novels, poems, histories, memoirs, valuable books in leather, cheap books in paper – one...
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“My roots go down through veins of lead and silver, through damp, marshy places...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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“The dream is too often about myself. To correct this; and to forget one’s own...”
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 22 December 1927 (via proustitute) 