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1 " Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet. "
― Virginia Woolf , The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four: 1931-1935
2 " Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art "
3 " The summer is put away folded up in the drawer with other summers. "
4 " Think of me, the uneducated child reading books in my room at 22 Hyde Park Gate -- now advanced to this glory... Yes; all that reading, I say, has borne this odd fruit. And I am pleased. "
5 " What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever. "
6 " So we discuss suicide, and the ghosts as I say, change so oddly in my mind; like people who live, & are changed by what one hears of them.- Diary, 17 Mar 1932, IV, p.83. "