“To those of us who study history not merely as a warning reminder of man's follies and crimes, but also as an encouraging remembrance of generative souls, the past ceases to be a depressing chamber of horrors; it becomes a celestial city, a spacious country of the mind, wherein a thousand saints, statesmen, inventors, scientists, poets, artists, musicians, lovers, and philosophers still live and speak, teach and carve and sing.”
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“It proves that Virginia Stephen was not born on the 25th January 1882, but was born many thousands of years ago and had from the very first to encounter instincts already acquired by thousands of ancestresses in the past.”
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“She realized she wasn't old at all. You couldn't be old and still be wrong about as many things as she'd been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.”
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“It is the nature of things to be seen only once, As they happen along, bumping into each other, getting along.”
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“It is hard to find California now, unsettling to wonder how much of it was merely imagined or improvised; melancholy to realize how much of anyone’s memory is no true memory at all but only the traces of someone else’s memory, stories handed down on the family network.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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