
“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.”
Source: The Valley of Bones
“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.”
“Only my books anoint me,
and a few friends,
those who reach into my veins.”
Source: The Complete Poems
Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928
Auf eine ähnliche Weise sollen in der vollkommnen Litteratur alle Bücher nur Ein Buch seyn, und in einem solchen ewig werdenden Buche wird das Evangelium der Menschheit und der Bildung offenbart werden.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 95
On violence in the arts, 1998 interview, reprinted in The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/08/25/lois-duncan-author-of-teenage-fiction--obituary/ (2016)
1990–2002
1900s, A Free Man's Worship (1903)