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“I think sometimes I am not a woman, but the light that falls on this gate, on this ground. I am the seasons, I think sometimes, January, May, November; the mud, the mist, the dawn.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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“It’s not any fun in the dark,” he said, and she saw his eyes brimming with tears that glistened in the moonlight. She really felt sorry for him—even she. For what could be more pitiful than a voyeur in the dark?”
― Shelby Foote, Love in a Dry Season

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“Meanwhile, let us abolish the ticking of time’s clock with one blow. Come closer.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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“I have lost friends, some by death—Percival—others through sheer inability to cross the street.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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“But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.”
― Grant, Ulysses S., Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: All Volumes

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