“One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.”

— Virginia Woolf

Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Six, 1936-1941

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English writer 1882–1941

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