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• Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

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  Heart, Light, Treasure

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “Monday or Tuesday”, p.5, Virginia Woolf

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• There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.

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  Life, Dream, Hair

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1819, Delphi Classics

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• We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

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  Virginia Woolf (2014). “The Waves”, p.15, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Intimacy is a difficult art.

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  Art, Intimacy, Difficult

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.331, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The artist after all is a solitary being.

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  Artist, Solitary

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”

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• In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

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  Life, Memories, Giving

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• Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.

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  Reality, Tea, Cups Of Tea

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• I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

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  Shadow, Skins, Feels

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• 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, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

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  Book, Reading, Sound

  Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1977). “A change of perspective”, Vintage

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• I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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  Creativity, Creative, Innovation

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.31

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• I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

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  People, Different, Made

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.97, Virginia Woolf

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• To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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  Motivational, Freedom, Self Control

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• We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.

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  Hands, Feet, Bird

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.104, Oxford University Press

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• The depths of the sea are only water after all.

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  Sea, Water, Depth

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• The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

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  Happiness, Beauty, Laughter

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.573, Wordsworth Editions

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• The world is crammed with delightful things

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  World, Delightful, Delightful Things

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Voyage Out”, p.66, Virginia Woolf

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• Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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  Book, Reading, Mirrors

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1835, Delphi Classics

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  As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

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  Inspirational, Country, Strong Women

  Three Guineas pt. 3 (1938)

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• Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.

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  Havens

  Virginia Woolf (1978). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1920-1924”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

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  Horse, Blame, Praise

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.819, Delphi Classics

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• There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

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  Imagination, Facts, Strange

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.64, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.

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  Healing, Hands, Perfect

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• For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

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  Eye, Strange, Property

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.179, Oxford University Press

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• Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.

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  Dark, Apparitions, Surface

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.58, Tyché

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• I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

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  Healing, Overwhelmed, Found

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