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  1. Virginia Woolf _ A Writer's Diary

    And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.
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  2. Virginia Woolf _ A Writer's Diary

    But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness.
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  3. Virginia Woolf _ A Writer's Diary

    What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever.
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  4. Virginia Woolf _ A Writer's Diary

    I want to resemble a sort of liquid light which stretches beyond visibility or invisibility. Tonight I wish to have the valor and daring to belong to the moon
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  5. Virginia Woolf _ A Writer's Diary

    I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. And to alter now, cleanly and sanely, I want to shuffle off this loose living randomness: people; reviews; fame; all the glittering scales; and be withdrawn, and concentrated.
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  6. Virginia Woolf _ A Writer's Diary

    Now is life very solid or very shifting? I am haunted by the two contradictions. This has gone on forever; goes down to the bottom of the world -- this moment I stand on. Also it is transitory, flying, diaphanous. I shall pass like a cloud on the waves. Perhaps it may be that though we change, one flying after another, so quick, so quick, yet we are somehow successive and continuous we human beings, and show the light through. But what is the light?
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  7. Virginia Woolf _ A Writer's Diary

    I am I: and I must follow that furrow, not copy another. That is the only justification for my writing, living.
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  8. Virginia Woolf _ A Writer's Diary

    So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.
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  9. Virginia Woolf _ A Writer's Diary

    The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw. One must get out of life...one must become externalised; very, very concentrated, all at one point, not having to draw upon the scattered parts of one's character, living in the brain.
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  10. Virginia Woolf _ A Writer's Diary

    ...I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.
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  11. Virginia Woolf _ A Writer's Diary

    If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don't admit to being hopeless, though: only the spectacle is a profoundly strange one; and as the current answers don't do, one has to grope for a new one, and the process of discarding the old, when one is by no means certain what to put in their place, is a sad one.
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  12. Virginia Woolf _ A Writer's Diary

    My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.
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