“Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”
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“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
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“Life stand still here.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
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