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Old Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.
- Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a…
- And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.
- He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the…
- Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that…
- I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
- 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…
- some we know to be dead even though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through all the forms of…
- His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the…
- If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit to…
- Let us begin by clearing up the old confusion between theman who loves learning and the man who loves reading, and point out that there…
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