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  1. Virginia Woolf _ Jacob's Room

    Nobody sees any one as he is, let alone an elderly lady sitting opposite a strange young man in a railway carriage. They see a whole--they see all sorts of things--they see themselves...
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  2. Virginia Woolf _ Jacob's Room

    The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it. The streets of London have their map; but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?
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  3. Virginia Woolf _ Jacob's Room

    Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. To gallop intemperately; fall on the sand tired out; to feel the earth spin; to have - positively - a rush of friendship for stones and grasses, as if humanity were over, and as for men and women, let them go hang - there is no getting over the fact that this desire seizes up pretty often.
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  4. Virginia Woolf _ Jacob's Room

    They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought{.}
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  5. Virginia Woolf _ Jacob's Room

    It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.
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  6. Virginia Woolf _ Jacob's Room

    Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.
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  7. Virginia Woolf _ Jacob's Room

    Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.
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  8. Virginia Woolf _ Jacob's Room

    One must love everything.
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  9. Virginia Woolf _ Jacob's Room

    In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.
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  10. Virginia Woolf _ Jacob's Room

    I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
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  11. Virginia Woolf _ Jacob's Room

    Marvelous are the innocent.
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  12. Virginia Woolf _ Jacob's Room

    Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?
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