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“...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“To define is to limit.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.”
― White Teeth
― White Teeth
“One might fancy that day, the London day, was just beginning. Like a woman who had slipped off her print dress and white apron to array herself in blue and pearls, the day changed, put off stuff, took gauze, changed to evening, and with the same sigh of exhilaration that a woman breathes, tumbling petticoats on the floor, it too shed dust, heat, colour; the traffic thinned; motor cars, tinkling, darting, succeeded the lumber of vans; and here and there among the thick foliage of the squares an intense light hung. I resign, the evening seemed to say, as it paled and faded above the battlements and prominences, moulded, pointed, of hotel, flat, and block of shops, I fade, she was beginning. I disappear, but London would have none of it, and rushed her bayonets into the sky, pinioned her, constrained her to partnership in her revelry.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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