Finally, Woolf hints at a paradox: the sentence you “owe” yourself is also the one that can liberate you. Once it is written, it no longer consumes energy through avoidance, and the mind has room to imagine more widely. Doubt may still return, but it returns to a page that now contains evidence of your ability to proceed.
Thus, the quote closes a loop: you edge past doubt by choosing one sentence, and that choice becomes the bridge to the next. The larger work is built the same way—one paid debt at a time—until what once felt impossible becomes simply written. [...]
