But it would have been a surprise, not only to katherine herself, if some magic watch could have taken count of the moments spent in an entirely different occupation from her ostensible one. Sitting with faded papers before her, she took part in a series of scenes such as the taming of wild ponies upon the American prairies, or the conduct of a vast ship in a hurricane round a black promontory of rock, or in others more peaceful, but marked by her complete emancipation from her present surroundings and, needles to say, her surprising ability in her new vocation. Virginia Woolf
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  1. I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination. - John Keats

  2. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde

  3. Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real. - William K. Mahony

  4. Shadows only come to life in our imaginations. Unfortunately for me, I've got a very vivid imagination. - Anthony T. Hincks

  5. Truth is a matter of the imagination. - Unknown

More Quotes By Virginia Woolf
  1. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  2. Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

  3. Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>So I am doing what seems the...

  4. What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

  5. To love makes one solitary.

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