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Wave Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- ...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to…
- For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles…
- 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…
- She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave…
- Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through the…
- Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long…
- Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand…
- Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been…
- and then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of the flowing of robes, of the flowering of blossoms, of…
- 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…
- 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,…
- For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ;…
- I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with…
- She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went…
- The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with…
- Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do…
- And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath…
- so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts…
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