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Came Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.
- But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to…
- At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show…
- The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
- I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual
- For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it…
- Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand,…
- And it was awfully strange, he thought, how she still had the power, as she came tinkling, rustling, still had the power as she came…
- Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.
- Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through the…
- For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is…
- They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were…
- This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw…
- She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her. But it was…
- But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him-…
- We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough.…
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