“The sound of Big Ben striking the half-hour struck out between them with extraordinary vigour, as if a young man, strong, indifferent, inconsiderate, were swinging dumb-bells this way and that.”
― Mrs. Dalloway (annotated): The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated Edition
― Mrs. Dalloway (annotated): The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated Edition
“We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe
that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie
asleep.”
― The Waves
that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie
asleep.”
― The Waves
“For I hear music, they were saying. Music wakes us. Music makes us see the hidden, join the broken. Look and listen.”
― Between the Acts
― Between the Acts
“Oh, I am in love with life!”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family of fourteen on a line in a gale of wind.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
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