"When I cannot see words curling like..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
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“Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.”
“It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.”
“Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.”
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“Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.”
“Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.”
“Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.”