Tra cielo e terra

Balancing between earth and sky
Free to imagine what I don't see.
~ Wednesday, October 28 ~
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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
— Virginia Woolf (via quote-book)
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~ Sunday, May 24 ~
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Lighthouse (via shiningarden)

She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

To the Lighthouse, Virgina Woolf

Lighthouse (via shiningarden)

She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

To the Lighthouse, Virgina Woolf

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~ Wednesday, April 30 ~
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I have sometimes dreamt, at least, that when the Day of Judgement dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards — their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble — the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when He sees us coming with our books under our arms, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.
— Virginia Woolf - How Should One Read a Book?
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