“A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.”
― The common reader: First and second series
― The common reader: First and second series
“I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.”
― A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary
― A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary
“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
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