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Language is wine upon the lips.

Language is wine upon the lips.

Virginia Woolf
Wine, Tongue, Lips

Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions──a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard──can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.

Virginia Woolf
Dream, Wine, Sleep
"The Common Reader". Book by Virginia Woolf, 1925.

Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a fiery, yellow liquid. Just behind my shoulder-blades some dry thing, wide-eyed, gently closes, gradually lulls itself to sleep. This is rapture. This is relief.

Virginia Woolf
Flower, Wine, Sleep

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

Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees and ivory, of dolphins and the juice of July flowers, of the milk of unicorns and panthers’ breath, of ropes of pearl, brains of peacocks and Cretan wine.

Virginia Woolf
Drama, Flower, Wine
Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.56, Lulu Press, Inc

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