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  1. Virginia Woolf _ The Years

    Love ought to stop on both sides, don't you think, simultaneously?' He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. 'But it won't - that's the devil,' he added in the same undertone.
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  2. Virginia Woolf _ The Years

    Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?
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  3. Virginia Woolf _ The Years

    Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?
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  4. Virginia Woolf _ The Years

    Would there be trees if we didn't see them?
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  5. Virginia Woolf _ The Years

    But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.
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  6. Virginia Woolf _ The Years

    There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.
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