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I am not a single and passing being. My life is not a bright spark like that on the surface of a diamond. I go beneath ground tortuously, as if a warder carried a lamp from cell to cell. My destiny has been that I remember and must weave together, must plait into one cable the many threads, the thin, the thick, the broken, the enduring of our long history, of our tumultuous and varied day.
— Jan 27, 2022 12:05AM
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If I have to wait, I read; I wake up in the night, I feel along the shelf for a book. Swelling, perpetually augmented, there is a vast accumulation of unrecorded matter in my head.
— Mar 20, 2022 01:54AM
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I cannot tell you if life is this or that. I am going to push out into the heterogeneous crowd. I am going to be buffeted; to be flung up, and flung down, among men, like a ship on the sea.
— Jan 24, 2022 12:38AM
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Jan 27, 2022 01:13AM
wow...I'm gonna memorise this and then just vomit it out everytime i doubt my experiences because they don't seem complex on the surface.
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Look, when you do read the book, you'll want to memorize almost everything from it. It is the most beautiful book I've ever read and I don't know how I'll handle finishing it. I know I'm gonna re-read it again and again and again for the rest of my life. I want to weave it into myself, make flesh out of it or turn myself into paper.
it was finally my "in" to Woolf. And I've never looked back. So amazing.
jrendocrine wrote: "it was finally my "in" to Woolf. And I've never looked back. So amazing."Ooh, I can definitely see why.
Every line is quotable and precious. Woolf could catch the poetry even in silence.
Yes, I haven't stopped sending pictures of underlined quotes to my friends since I started reading it.
