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“Indeed he seemed to her sometimes made differently from other people, born blind, deaf and dumb to the ordinary things, but to the extraordinary things, with an eye like an eagle’s. His understanding often astonished her. But did he notice the flowers? No. Did he notice the view? No.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“One must strain off what was personal and accidental in all these impressions and so reach the pure fluid, the essential oil of truth.”
― A Room Of One's Own: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
― A Room Of One's Own: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
“but what was surprising and difficult of explanation was the fact that sex—woman, that is to say—also attracts agreeable essayists, light-fingered novelists, young men who have taken the M.A. degree; men who have taken no degree; men who have no apparent qualification save that they are not women.”
― A Room Of One's Own: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
― A Room Of One's Own: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
“Art imitates nature, but does not copy it.”
― Goethe: A Very Short Introduction
― Goethe: A Very Short Introduction
“And looking up, she saw above the thin trees the first pulse of the full-throbbing star, and wanted to make her husband look at it; for the sight gave her such keen pleasure. But she stopped herself. He never looked at things. If he did, all he would say would be, Poor little world, with one of his sighs.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
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