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“ Virginia Woolf’s writing desk, from a lovely new illustrated biography of the beloved writer.
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Virginia Woolf’s writing desk, from a lovely new illustrated biography of the beloved writer.

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

Virginia Woolf (via wordsnquotes)

writing:

Be afraid.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?

Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
(via bookmania)

oorequiemoo:
“ Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Portrait by Man Ray (1890-1976)
1935
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oorequiemoo:

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Portrait by Man Ray (1890-1976)
1935

My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

Virginia Woolf (via petrichour)

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

Virginia Woolf (via observando)

I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

Virginia Woolf, From a diary entry dated 5 November 1931 (via petrichour)

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.

Virginia Woolf, Orlando (via duttonbooks)

The things we do for love.

(via bookoisseur)

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. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world…

Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being (via introspectivepoet)

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