"Write It Down and the Pain Will Pass (Selected Diaries of Virginia Woolf)" Author: [British] Virginia Woolf / [British] Leonard Woolf Publisher: CITIC Press

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Virginia Woolf's diary, written over a period of 24 years, contains more than 500 private conversations during the nights and days.

“Maybe I won’t become ‘famous’ or ‘great’, but I will continue to take risks, continue to change, broaden my horizons, refuse to be trampled on, and refuse to stick to the rules. The important thing is to free myself and find my own space without restrictions.”

This book is a collection of diaries compiled by Virginia Woolf's husband Leonard Woolf, which includes Woolf's precious diaries from 1918 to 1941. We can see how she tread through thorns. As a female writer, her works have been slandered as much as praised. On the one hand, "I write what I want to write", and on the other hand, "I searched my heart and soul to find my name in articles and reviews"; she would "poisonously" comment on the works of famous writers, and following her diary, we can almost get a wonderful reading list; in her diary, she also recorded the process of falling into depression and mental breakdown, and confessed her struggle and search in the darkness...