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Lay Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the…
- It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to…
- We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how…
- ...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow twenty years ago;…
- He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.
- 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,…
- Twice Flush had done his utmost to kill his enemy; twice he had failed. And why had he failed, he asked himself? Because he loved…
- I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands…
- At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the…
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