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“A little while and the living town, this tiny world of mine, will all be here, tucked under the same dark blanket, cosily together. Another little while and the last of us, those I loved and those I disapproved will be sharing oblivion, for no one will remember any of us.”
― Lanterns on the Levee
― Lanterns on the Levee
“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 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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“The soul is one's own affair from the beginning to the end. What is the soul? When I was a child I thought it was a little ghostly bean, kidney-shaped. I don't know why. Now I think of it as the man I am with when I am alone.”
― The Tiger in the Smoke
― The Tiger in the Smoke
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