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“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: infinity

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“Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader

tags: advice, authors, readers, writing

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“There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader

tags: fact, imagination

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“For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader

tags: sharing

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“For the vision of a novelist is both complex and specialised; complex, because behind his characters and apart from them must stand something stable to which he relates them; specialised because since he is a single person with one sensibility the aspects of life in which he can believe with conviction are strictly limited”
― Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader

tags: complexity, duality, joseph-conrad, writing-craft

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