#woolfposting

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first edition of The Waves (1931), jacket cover designed by Vanessa Bell

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Virginia Woolf and Sir Maurice Bowra, photographed by Lady Ottoline Morrell, June 1926 (from the National Portrait Gallery archives)

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all life flows back into the ocean, back into the waves.

this book is my bible in many ways, and it has something new for me each time I return to it … today I long for a little language such as lovers use

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Virginia Woolf, photographed by Lady Ottoline Morrell, June 1924 (from the National Portrait Gallery archives)

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rhoda as the apparition haunting the narrative

from The Waves (1931) by Virginia Woolf

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'I like my experimental temper'

from The Diary of Virginia Woolf, vol. 4, 1931-1935

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I think my writing is a species of mediumship.

from The Diary of Virginia Woolf, vol. 5, 1936-1941. July 11, 1937.

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Ah yes, but think of the speed boat !

from the diary of Virginia Woolf, July 1932