“Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin”

—  Virginia Woolf , book The Waves

Source: The Waves (1931), p. 224
Context: Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.

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