My Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

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“Happiness Is To Have a Little String Onto Which Things Will Attach Themselves.”

Virginia Woolf

“Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves. For example, going to my dressmaker in Judd Street, or rather thinking of a dress I could get her to make, & imagining it made—that is the string, which as if it dipped loosely into a wave of treasure brings up pearls sticking to it. And my days are likely to be strung with them.”
–Virginia Woolf, Diary, 20 April 1925

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