People actually thinking “You can’t find peace by avoiding life” is a real Virginia Woolf quote whereas it was only featured in “The Hours” and is 100% fictional
This issue needs to be cleared up.
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"Was your telegram intended to convey a command or merely a message? I mean, should it be written “Love Virginia!”—an imperative,—or “Love. Virginia.”? Whichever way you read it, it was very nice and unexpected, and if a command it has been obeyed."Vita Sackville-West in a letter to Virginia Woolf, 6 January 1928 (via courcel)
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never knew i wanted a ladder in my house. i do. i want one that rolls.
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"I want to resemble a sort of liquid light which stretches beyond visibility or invisibility. Tonight I wish to have the valor and daring to belong to the moon."Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary (via petrichour)
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“It is dull,” said Jinny, “walking along the high road with no windows to look at, with no bleared eyes of blue glass let into the pavement.”
-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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"Here I stand. I stand for a moment in the heart of London. Innumerable wheels rush and feet press just over my head. I am in the heart of life. I still move. I still live. But who will come if I signal?"Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via violentwavesofemotion)
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Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941
…in case anyone thought female author bias was a new thing.
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"With her eyes upon the dark sky, voices reached her from the room in which she was standing. She heard them as if they came from people in another world, a world antecedent to her world, a world that was the prelude, the antechamber to reality; it was as if, lately dead, she heard the living talking."Virginia Woolf, Night and Day (via mirroir)
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"I perceived, from your coats and umbrella, even at a distance, how you stand embedded in a substance made of repeated moments run together; are committed, have an attitude, with authority, fame, love, society; where I have nothing. I have no face."Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via violentwavesofemotion)
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"Everybody seems to be doing things for this moment only; and never again. Never again. The urgency of it all is fearful."Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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