For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them, grew larger and larger in her arms, until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, This is what I have made of it! This! And what had she made of it? What, indeed? β¨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.878, Delphi Classics
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- The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded. β¨ Virginia Woolf (1996). Mrs Dalloway, p.119, Words β¦ βΆ
- Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lo β¦ βΆ
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