More from Virginia Woolf

  1. But delightful though it is to indulge in righteous indignation, it is misplaced if we agree with the lady's-maid that high birth is a form…
  2. What she loved was this, here, now, in front of her; the fat lady in the cab. Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond S…
  3. Theirs, too, is the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
  4. But to go deeper, beneath what people said (and these judgements, how superficial, how fragmentary they are!) in her own mind now, what did…
  5. Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the begi…
  6. A light here required a shadow there.
  7. But can we go to posterity with a sheaf of loose pages, or ask the readers of those days, with the whole of literature before them, to sift…
  8. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the bet…

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