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  1. Virginia Woolf _ Orlando

    For nothing {...} is more heavenly than to resist and to yield; to yield and to resist.
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  2. Virginia Woolf _ Orlando

    Let us go, then, exploring, this summer morning, when all are adoring the plum blossom and the bee.
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  3. Virginia Woolf _ Orlando

    She felt drawing further from her and further from her an Archduke,{she did not mind that}a fortune,{she did not mind that}the safety and circumstance of married life,{she did not mind that}but life she heard going from her, and a lover.
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  4. Virginia Woolf _ Orlando

    Heaven has mercifully decreed that the secrets of all hearts are hidden so that we are lured on for ever to suspect something, perhaps, that does not exist.
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  5. Virginia Woolf _ Orlando

    Change was incessant, and change perhaps would never cease. High battlements of thought, habits that had seemed as durable as stone, went down like shadows at the touch of another mind and left a naked sky and fresh stars twinkling in it.
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  6. Virginia Woolf _ Orlando

    There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.
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  7. Virginia Woolf _ Orlando

    Yet it is true that there was an absent mindedness about her which sometimes made her clumsy; she was apt to think of poetry when she should have been thinking of taffeta; her walk was a little too much of a stride for a woman, perhaps, and her gestures, being abrupt, might endanger a cup of tea on occasion.
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  8. Virginia Woolf _ Orlando

    At one moment we deplore our birth and state and aspire to an ascetic exaltation; the next we are overcome by the smell of some old garden path and weep to hear the thrushes sing.
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  9. Virginia Woolf _ Orlando

    And indeed, it cannot be denied that the most successful practitioners of life, often unknown people by the way, somehow contrive to synchronize the sixty or seventy different times which beat simultaneously in every normal human system, so that when eleven strikes, all the rest chime in unison, and the present is neither a violent disruption nor completely forgotten in the past.
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  10. Virginia Woolf _ Orlando

    In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see men flying- but how is it done? I can't even begin to wonder. So my belief in magic returns.
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  11. Virginia Woolf _ Orlando

    {She was singing} a senseless singsong, so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favorable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace she wore.
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  12. Virginia Woolf _ Orlando

    The sky is blue,' he said, 'the grass is green.' Looking up, he saw that, on the contrary, the sky is like the veils which a thousand Madonnas have let fall from their hair; and the grass fleets and darkens like a flight of girls fleeing the embraces of hairy satyrs from enchanted woods. 'Upon my word,' he said {...}, 'I don't see that one's more true than another. Both are utterly false.
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