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She liked getting hold of some book, and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing her thoughts with any one, or having to decide whether the book was a good one or a bad one.
Virginia Woolf, from Night And Day (via violentwavesofemotion)
Yes, I do remember that I had something important to tell you. You won’t mind if I don’t, will you? I’d rather leave it unexpressed — it comes out too direct and scarily hollow.
Virginia Woolf, from Selected Letters (via violentwavesofemotion)
gracls2013:
“ What We Read: above, Virginia Woolf’s outline for “Time Passes,“ the second part of To The Lighthouse, and a picture of the St. Ives lighthouse, dated 1919. Both images come from Woolf Online, a very cool digitization project that calls...
gracls2013:
“ What We Read: above, Virginia Woolf’s outline for “Time Passes,“ the second part of To The Lighthouse, and a picture of the St. Ives lighthouse, dated 1919. Both images come from Woolf Online, a very cool digitization project that calls...

gracls2013:

What We Read: above, Virginia Woolf’s outline for “Time Passes,“ the second part of To The Lighthouse, and a picture of the St. Ives lighthouse, dated 1919. Both images come from Woolf Online, a very cool digitization project that calls itself “An Electronic Edition and Commentary of Virginia Woolf’s Time Passes." 

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination
I should like it to resemble some deep old desk, or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through. I should like to come back, after a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously do, into a mould, transparent enough to reflect the light of our life, and yet steady, tranquil compounds with the aloofness of a work of art.
Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then—our friends are not able to finish their stories.
Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via proustitute)
book-aesthete:
“ Monday or Tuesday
Virginia Woolf. Woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. The Hogarth Press, 1921.
91 pp. Illustrated with woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. (8vo), cloth-backed decorative boards designed by Bell. First Edition.One of only 1000 copies...
book-aesthete:
“ Monday or Tuesday
Virginia Woolf. Woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. The Hogarth Press, 1921.
91 pp. Illustrated with woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. (8vo), cloth-backed decorative boards designed by Bell. First Edition.One of only 1000 copies...

book-aesthete:

Monday or Tuesday
Virginia Woolf. Woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. The Hogarth Press, 1921.


91 pp. Illustrated with woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. (8vo), cloth-backed decorative boards designed by Bell. First Edition.One of only 1000 copies printed. Kirkpatrick A5a; Woolmer 17.

Interior woodcut:
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