"[...] writing seems to me a queer thing. It does make a difference. I should never talk to you like this. For one thing, I dont know what mood you are in, and then - but the subtleties are infinite. The truth is, I am always trying to get behind words; and they flop down upon me suddenly. [...]And then you are much simpler than I am. [...] How do you manage to see only one thing at a time? Without any of those reflections that distract me so much, and make people call me bad names. I suppose [...]your simplicity is really that you take in much more than I do, who intensify atoms."
Virginia Woolf i brev til søsteren Vanessa Bell d. 16. august 1909
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