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Quite Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes?…
- It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite…
- It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths…
- 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…
- There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes…
- 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-…
- Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.
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