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"that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.”
— Feb 06, 2025 06:09AM
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"These moments of being are embedded in many more moments of non-being."
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"The tragedy of her death was not that it made one, now and then and very intensely, unhappy. It was that it made her unreal; and us solemn, and self-conscious. We were made to act parts that we did not feel; to fumble for words that we did not know. It obscured, it dulled"
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Feb 06, 2025 06:29AM
So well-said.
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She is simply brilliant; a genius.
I have on my list her Diary of a Writer. This seems to be the same church, different pew.
Ken wrote: "I have on my list her Diary of a Writer. This seems to be the same church, different pew."Both works intersect, but "Moments of Being" is a more introspective and autobiographical look at Woolf's life. "A Writer's Diary" was more focused into her creative process and daily life as a writer.
