#virginia woolf

Florence and the Machine, No Light No Light Virginia Woolf Ranata Suzuki...

"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."...

“The purpose of this message is manifold. Its principal object is to say that I don’t like being cut off from you and thus ...

First, the pulse or colour flooded the bay with blue, and the heart expanded with it and the body swam, only the next instant ...

Virginia Woolf from a diary entry June 1929...

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note,...

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Could loving, as people called it, make her and Mrs Ramsay one? for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired,

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Yes, the nights are marvellous. Full moon, nightingales,

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…and I sat there and read which was very nice.

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After all books are the greatest help and comfort.

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The early morning is lovely. I like to feel that I am in harmony with nature;

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…on soft nights when I lied with my window open,

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It was a perfect autumn morning – rich & warm & regretful,

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Empty as a moonlit sky; and brilliant with light & sweet with flowers,

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She is a beautiful creature, whom I always connect in my mind with some very beautiful Greek statues.

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…but beautiful places are often melancholy and very lonely.

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So soft, so melancholy, so wild,

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It has secretly craved such beauty. You don’t know, till you satisfy it, how much it has craved.

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Beautiful statues have a look not seen on living faces. Such beauty is of an essence that is immortal.

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She was bound hand and foot and unable to move by the intensity of feelings which reduced her own body, her own life, and

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…the power to feel intensely.

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The words sounded as if they were floating like flowers on water,

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In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.

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I remember the feeling. It was a feeling of hopeless sadness.

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