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Olivia
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“What dissolution of the soul you demanded in order to get through one day, what lies, bowings, scrapings, fluency and servility! How you chained me to one spot, one hour, one chair, and sat yourselves down opposite! How you snatched from me the white spaces that lie between hour and hour and rolled them into dirty pellets and tossed them into the waste-paper basket with your greasy paws.”
— Nov 14, 2025 02:46PM
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Olivia
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"I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found that story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?"
— Nov 14, 2025 06:34AM
Olivia
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“Alone, over my dead fire, I tend to see the thin places in my own stories.”
— Nov 08, 2025 06:56PM
Olivia
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take me into your loving arms, Virginia!!
(baby Bernard thinking about how pretty baby Susan’s eyes are and then baby Susan criticizing her own eyes a few paragraphs down 😭)
— Nov 06, 2025 06:15AM
(baby Bernard thinking about how pretty baby Susan’s eyes are and then baby Susan criticizing her own eyes a few paragraphs down 😭)
Olivia
is on page 64 of 200
Started rereading this today, and as per usual Woolf is blowing my mind all over again. The insight of this novel is stunning. (I know that's a really pretentious thing to say, but it's true. Her ability to articulate the deepest, most indistinct parts of the human psyche amazes me.)
— Mar 20, 2021 06:50PM
