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Reads tagged with “Virginia Woolf”

Truth, Fact, and the Patterning of Reality: Virginia Woolf on How We Come to Know the World
Truth, Fact, and the Patterning of Reality: Virginia Woolf on How We Come to Know the World

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Living Against Time: Virginia Woolf on the Art of Presence and the “Moments of Being” That Make You Who You Are
Living Against Time: Virginia Woolf on the Art of Presence and the “Moments of Being” That Make You Who You Are

In praise of “the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.”

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The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul
The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul

“Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.”

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Virginia Woolf on Self-Knowledge and the Limits of Empathy
Virginia Woolf on Self-Knowledge and the Limits of Empathy

“We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others… There is a virgin forest in each.”

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Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed
Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed

Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Oliver Sacks, Rebecca Solnit, Bronson Alcott, Michael Pollan, Jamaica Kincaid, and more.

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Virginia Woolf on Love
Virginia Woolf on Love

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Of Wonder, the Courage of Uncertainty, and How to Hear Your Soul: The Best of The Marginalian 2023
Of Wonder, the Courage of Uncertainty, and How to Hear Your Soul: The Best of The Marginalian 2023

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Terror, Tenderness, and the Paradoxes of Human Nature: How a Marmoset Saved Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Lives from the Nazis
Terror, Tenderness, and the Paradoxes of Human Nature: How a Marmoset Saved Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Lives from the Nazis

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Virginia Woolf on the Courage to Create Rather Than Cater and the Remedy for Self-Doubt
Virginia Woolf on the Courage to Create Rather Than Cater and the Remedy for Self-Doubt

“One must face the despicable vanity which is at the root of all this niggling and haggling.”

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Dreams, Consciousness, and the Nature of the Universe
Dreams, Consciousness, and the Nature of the Universe

“Perhaps dreams are an arena that can enable supracognitive powers to perform calculations and perceptions of reality that may be incomprehensible in our wake state.”

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