#a passionate apprentice

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Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in “A Passionate Apprentice,”

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Virginia Woolf, A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909

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Virginia Woolf, from A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals 1897-1909

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I need to emerge from tiny time-stopping moments; I need to exist inside dawn’s light. I need to give in to the presence of everything humble, boundlessly sincere and extraordinarily terrifying.

Virginia Woolf, from A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals 1897-1909

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Sex Education S02E01 

Book title

Silas Marner (1861) by George Eliot

A Room of One's Own (1929) by Virginia Woolf

Unaccustomed Earth (2008) by Jhumpa Lahiri

A Passionate Apprentice (1990) by Virginia Woolf

Emma (1815) by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen

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“I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people.”

Virginia Woolf

A Passionate Apprentice

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I often consider myself as a figure in a foggy painting: faltering lines, insecure distances, and a merging of greys and blacks. An emotion or a mood - a mere wisp of colour - is shaded off and made to spread until it becomes one with all that surrounds it.

Virginia Woolf, A Passionate Apprentice