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Look Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They…
- Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters…
- It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
- Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in…
- When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the…
- That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your…
- With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she…
- Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf,…
- To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it…
- There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.
- All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far…
- And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will…
- ...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely…
- Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They…
- I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards…
- Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths,…
- The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to…
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