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Looking Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably…
- Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
- So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball
- ...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…
- The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye, that opened suddenly, and softly in the evening. Now— James looked at the…
- Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his…
- 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 spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire…
- A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch…
- 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…
- 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…
- Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer,…
- Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind a waiter, now…
- Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote, I…
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- Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that… — Cassandra Clare
- Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all;… — Rajneesh
- Smarmy little prig,†Will snarled, leaning father forward, as if he longed to reach through the magical portal and strangle Gabriel. “When… — Cassandra Clare
- I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. — Charlotte Bronte
- I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that… — Jim Carrey
- There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for. — Unknown Author