“One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“The strange thing on looking back was the purity, the integrity of her feeling for Sally. It was not like one's feeling for a man.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“As we are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship, as the whole thing is a bad joke, let us, at any rate, do our part; mitigate the suffering of our fellow-prisoners; decorate the dungeon with flowers and air-cushions; be as decent as we possibly can.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
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