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A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary QUOTES

A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary QUOTES

1 " This fiddling and drifting and not impressing oneself upon anything – this always refraining and fingering and cutting things up into little jokes and facetiousness – that's what's so annihilating. Yet given little money, little looks, no special gift – what can one do? How could one battle? How could one leap on the back of life and wring its scruff? "

― Virginia Woolf , A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary

2 " How could one leap on the back of life and wring its scruff? "

― Virginia Woolf , A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary

3 " I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose. "

― Virginia Woolf , A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary