“The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she moved and took Minta's arm and left the room, it changed, it shaped itself differently; it had become, she knew, giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
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