#virginia woolf's diary

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Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in “The Selected Diaries of Virginia Woolf,”

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Virginia Woolf from a diary entry wr. c. February 1920 in The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf

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

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Job searching is terrifying but every now and then I allow myself fugitive trips to the library to read, journal, and take care of myself. My current read is A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf. It was a gift and it has a priceless dedication on its front page, which I'm striving to show you.

[amicus-noctis]

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.” ― Franz Kafka

Drawings by Franz Kafka from his sketchbook, circa 1901-7. Literary Estate of Max Brod, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem. Photo by Ardon Bar Hama

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from the diary of Virginia Woolf

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And so this August is wasted.

- Virginia Woolf (A Writer's Diary, August 1921)

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Tuesday, 27 August 1918

"It was the first autumn day, warm, softly blue, & blurred with haze."

~ Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, vol. 1 (1915-1919), ed. Anne Olivier Bell

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in "A Writer's Diary," originally pub. in January 1953

[petaltexturedskies]

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909

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Virginia Woolf

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Here are my resolutions for the next 3 months; the next lap of the year. To have none. Not to be tied. To be free & kindly with myself, not goading it to parties: to sit rather privately reading in the studio...Sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. To go out yes – but stay at home in spite of being asked. As for clothes, to buy good ones.

— Virginia Woolf, on January 2, 1931 in "A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf", compiled and edited by her husband, Leonard Woolf, and published posthumously in 1953 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

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“I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.”

-Diaries of Virginia Woolf