"How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself."

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@3 months ago with 127 notes
#quotes #V. Woolf 
"How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself."
Virginia Woolf (via bookshavepores)

(Source: accidentalism, via bookish-owlette)

3 months ago
#quotes #V. Woolf