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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.”
― The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928
― The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928
“When something's let go of, it circles; and though we are rarely the center of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous curve.”
― Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose
― Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose
“Human cities in particular, each one more or less according to its degree of perfection, surround the life of their inhabitants with poetry. They are images and reflections of the city and the world.”
― Waiting for God. Perennial Classics Series. ISBN: 0060959703 / 0-06-095970-3
― Waiting for God. Perennial Classics Series. ISBN: 0060959703 / 0-06-095970-3
“Why is it that every so often history demands a bloodbath, a holocaust, an Armageddon? And why is it that every time the time before has taught us nothing?”
― Waterland
― Waterland
“it stands behind me like a boneless ghost and depends on me alone to lend it my flesh.”
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