[Vwoolf] misquote

[Neverow, Vara S.]

Hi Jeremy,

That's total fiction. I just did a search on the Kindle version of Virginia Woolf: The Complete Works.. There are 37 variations of "Whatever happens" (but not the phrase in the quotation you provided) and there isn't a single phrase "stay alive" in any work by Woolf. It's not Woolf's writing style.

This webpage does have some of the wording (written by "Joy"): https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://medium.com/@imma.corvino25/whatever-happens-stay-alive-616cd93e5fdc__;!!KGKeukY!2Qu37M_gjKMnqKJlGDBUcwD8WhM22xPmL5rvaqkzxY0-rA_VU0ETws0AkTJ1pQ-Rjj8UtUCxaKOyL88PbMxCLo2oKmfBANLAueTbTw$ 
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Whatever happens, stay alive. | by Joy | Medium<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://medium.com/@imma.corvino25/whatever-happens-stay-alive-616cd93e5fdc__;!!KGKeukY!2Qu37M_gjKMnqKJlGDBUcwD8WhM22xPmL5rvaqkzxY0-rA_VU0ETws0AkTJ1pQ-Rjj8UtUCxaKOyL88PbMxCLo2oKmfBANLAueTbTw$ >
Whatever happens, stay alive. Don't die before you're really dead. Don't lose yourself, don't lose hope, don't lose direction. Stay alive, with all of yourself, with every cell in your body, with…
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Best,
Vara

Vara Neverow
(she/her/hers)
Professor, English Department
Editor, Virginia Woolf Miscellany
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
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Recent Publications:

Lead editor, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Kathryn Simpson, and Gill Lowe); Editor, Volume One, 1975-1984, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2020); Co-editor, The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature (Edinburgh, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Paulina Pająk, Catherine Hollis, and Celiese Lypka)


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Subject: [Vwoolf] misquote

This text is all over the internet and attributed to Woolf. Does anyone have an actual source for it?


“Whatever happens, stay alive.
Don't die before you're dead.
Don't lose yourself, don't lose hope,
don't loose direction.
Stay alive, with yourself, with every cell of your body, with every fiber of your skin.
Stay alive, learn, study, think, read, build,
invent, create, speak, write, dream, design.
Stay alive, stay alive inside you, stay alive also outside, fill yourself with colors of the world,
fill yourself with peace, fill yourself with hope.
Stay alive with joy.
There is only one thing you should not waste in life, and that's life itself...
| Virginia Woolf

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