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“Vain trifles as they seem, clothes change our view of the world and the world’s view of us. ”
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“He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall of time, which is forever lifting and pulling and letting fresh spaces of life in upon us. May it be mine to taste the moment before it has spread itself over the rest of the world! Let me taste the newest and the freshest.”
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“I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon that weight. Beautiful and bright it should be on the surface, feathery and evanescent, one colour melting into another like the colours on a butterfly's wing; but beneath the fabric must be clamped together with bolts of iron.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
Shoumi’s 2024 Year in Books
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