Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence
Virginia WoolfHe who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
Virginia WoolfStichwörter: life inspirational dreams aspirations hopes
But his son hated him. He hated him for coming up to them, for stopping and looking down on them; he hated him for interrupting them; he hated him for the exaltation and sublimity of his gestures; for the magnificence of his head; for his exactingness and egotism (for there he stood, commanding then to attend to him); but most of all he hated the twang and twitter of his father's emotion which, vibrating round them, disturbed the perfect simplicity and good sense of his relations with his mother. By looking fixedly at the page, he hoped to make him move on; by pointing his finger at a word, he hoped to recall his mother's attention, which, he knew angrily, wavered instantly his father stopped. But, no. Nothing would make Mr. Ramsay move on. There he stood, demanding sympathy.
Virginia WoolfTo pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was to her so horrible an outrage of human decency that, without replying, dazed and blinded, she bend her head as if to let her pelt f jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked.
Virginia WoolfWho would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?
Virginia WoolfThe world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.
Virginia Woolf...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
Virginia WoolfSo that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball
Virginia WoolfStichwörter: marriage
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
Virginia WoolfMoments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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