![]() “My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. ![]() There is nothing useful in the constant noise of the mind. “Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”~ Virginia Woolf 25. Masterpiece are the result of years and years of collective experiences. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”~ Virginia Woolf 23. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. “How much better is silence the coffee cup, the table. “What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.”~ Virginia Woolf 22. To escape this world is the greatest of adventures. “Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.”~ Virginia Woolf 21. When the mind is bigger than everything else, everything else slowly shrivels. “The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.”~ Virginia Woolf 20. Be aware of yourself and you will experience profound and constant happiness. “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” 19. How can you tell the truth about others when you can’t tell the truth about yourself? “The only advice … that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.”~ Virginia Woolf 18. Follow your own instincts, use your own reason, come to your own conclusions. “Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.” ~ Virginia Woolfġ7. Amazing results come from being truthful. “In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.” ~ Virginia Woolf 14. “I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.” ~ Virginia Woolf 13. Go within and experience the delights of doing so. “Lock up your libraries if you like but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” 12. The freedom of your mind can never be locked up. He may seek the truth and speak it he alone is free he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.” ~ Virginia Woolf 11. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. “While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist obscurity is dark, ample, and free obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. “The eyes of others our prisons their thoughts our cages.”~ Virginia Woolf 10. “Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.”~ Virginia Woolfĩ. ![]() Only you can know the truth of who you are. “The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”Ĩ. Our hearts are divided by the two edges of the world: laughter and anguish. “Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.”~ Virginia Woolf 7. Does someone really have to die for the rest of us to value life more? “Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.” ~ Virginia Woolf 6. “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?”~ Virginia Woolf 5. ![]() “Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.” ~ Virginia Woolf 4. How can you grasp the beauty of life when you can’t even see it in a flower? It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.” ~ Virginia Woolf 3. “I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. Learn to experience every emotion not from the past, but from the present moment it’s taking place in.
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