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“as if all the fertility and amorous activity of a summer's evening were woven web-like about his body.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost, and it now remained only to fill in such unimportant details as what they were called; where they lived; and whether they were beggars or people of substance.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“Better is it', she thought, 'to be clothed with poverty and ignorance, which are the dark garments of the female sex; better to leave the rule and discipline of the world to others; better be quit of martial ambition, the love of power, and all the other manly desires if so one can more fully enjoy the most exalted raptures known to the humane spirit, which are', she said aloud, as her habit was when deeply moved, 'contemplation, solitude, love.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“Love and ambition, women and poets were all equally vain. Literature was a farce.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“felt that if he need never speak to another man or woman so long as he lived; if his dogs did not develop the faculty of speech; if he never met a poet or a Princess again, he might make out what years remained to him in tolerable content.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
Whady’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Whady’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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