“Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.”
― Selected Diaries
― Selected Diaries
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― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“I see the mountains in the sky; the great clouds; and the moon; I have a great and astonishing sense of something there, which is “it”—it is not exactly beauty that I mean. It is that the thing is in itself enough: satisfactory, achieved. A sense of my own strangeness, walking on the earth is there too: of the infinite oddity of the human position; with the moon up there and those mountain clouds.”
― The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three: 1925-1930
― The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three: 1925-1930
“Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
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