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Wanted Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to…
- Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine…
- One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table,…
- Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just…
- Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.
- Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and poetry…
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