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I’ve only read the editors note so far, but I’m interested to learn more about Virginia Woolf and her life.

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"it is a token of some real thing behind appearances ; and I make it real by putting it into words. It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole ; this wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me ; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together. Perhaps this is the strongest pleasure known to me." this whole paragraph 🥲

“…sorrow is our lot, and at best we can but face it bravely.”

“…that we - I mean all human beings - are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art.”

“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”