"for it was not knowledge but unity..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge
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“I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.”
“Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.”
“Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, "Good God! Here I am again!" not always with pleasure, often with pain; sometimes in a spasm.”
More on Intimacy
“In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love.”
“I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.”
“We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.”
More on Knowledge
“The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.”
“To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.”
“I am sure,Though you can guess what temperance should be,You know not what it is.”