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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.
— Virginia Woolf
After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.
— Virginia Woolf
I am the foam that sweeps and fills the uttermost rims of the rocks with whiteness; I am also a girl, here in this room.
— Virginia Woolf
The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
— Virginia Woolf
It was the present moment. No one need wonder that Orlando started, pressed her hand to her heart, and turned pale. For what more terrifying revelation can there be than that it is the present moment?
— Virginia Woolf
I almost envied him the possession of this modest and clear flame.
— Virginia Woolf
I have been stained by you and corrupted. You smelt so unpleasant too, lining up outside doors to buy tickets.
— Virginia Woolf
Unhappiness is everywhere; just beyond the door; or stupidity, which is worse
— Virginia Woolf
Why creeds and prayers and mackintoshes? when, thought Clarissa, that's the miracle, that's the mystery; that old lady, she meant, whom she could see going from chest of drawers to dressing-table.
— Virginia Woolf
A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!
— Charles Dickens
So I says "My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs." And we had the tea and the affairs too....
— Charles Dickens
Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman's.
— Charles Dickens