“Into the River”: A Tribute to Virginia Woolf
Felix Natalis, Virginia Woolf. Continue reading “Into the River”: A Tribute to Virginia Woolf
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“Ravens, Cream, solitude, sublimity”: Virginia Woolf on Literature & Inner Peace
How many of us, “congenial spirits” are left out there, as Woolf writes in The Voyage Out (1915), “feel[ing] intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.” Continue reading “Ravens, Cream, solitude, sublimity”: Virginia Woolf on Literature & Inner Peace
George Eliot & Virginia Woolf on Happiness
“Happiness,” Woolf writes, “is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent.” Continue reading George Eliot & Virginia Woolf on Happiness
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