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“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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