“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.”
― The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
― The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
“She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
― Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
― Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
“I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.”
― The Voyage Out
― The Voyage Out
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