Virginia Woolf explains beautifully what it took for her to become a writer and artist: “Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern… the whole world is a work of art… there is no Shakespeare… no Beethoven… no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.” (Brain Pickings Newsletter)
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