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The depths of the sea are only water after all.

The depths of the sea are only water after all.

Virginia Woolf
Sea, Water, Depth

I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.

Virginia Woolf
Water, Save Me, Rough
Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.94, ShandonPress

She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but a faint booming sound, which was the sound of the sea rolling over her head. While all her tormentors thought that she was dead, she was not dead, but curled up at the bottom of the sea.

Virginia Woolf
Sea, Water, Sound
Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.299, Delphi Classics

A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

Virginia Woolf
Wine, Giving, Water
Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.89, Lulu Press, Inc

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.

Virginia Woolf
Wine, Water, Literature
Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.14, Oxford University Press

You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.

Virginia Woolf
Water, Ingredients, Lectures
Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.361, Lulu Press, Inc

About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

Virginia Woolf
Water, Half, Ships

Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through the waves came the voices of birds singing.

Virginia Woolf
Air, Voice, Water
Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.216, Wordsworth Editions

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