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 would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2016). The Collected Novels of Virginia Woolf - Volume II - Between the Acts, Mrs Dalloway, Orlando, p.290, Read Books Ltd
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- Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2006). Orlando (Annotated): A Biography, p.146, HMH
- Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. ✨ Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (1977). The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1915-1919, Chatto & Windus
- The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire. ✨ The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1918-1924.
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