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HAPPY BIRTHDAY VIRGINIA WOOLF

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Happy birthday, Virginia Woolf.
Virginia was born on this day (25th of January) in 1882 in Kensington,London, Uk.

JAMES TISSOT ~ IMAGINATION

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Summer, 1878, James Tissot.

“It is imagination that inflames the passions by painting in a fascinating or terrible fashion an object which impresses us.”

James Jacques Tissot (1836-1902)

Study for (also known as Woman in an Interior)
James Tissot – circa 1883-1885

James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902)
“Holiday” c1876

VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ ON LIFE

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“We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It’s as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we’re very fortunate, by time itself. There’s just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds & expectations, to burst open & give us everything we’ve ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) know these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning, we hope, more than anything for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so.”
― Virginia Woolf

VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ THE SEA

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“The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

KATHERINE MANSFIELD ~ I WANT TO TALK TO TCHEKOV

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“Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.”
― Katherine Mansfield, Journal of Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield playing the cello, Queen’s College, Harley Street, London, between 1903-1905

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