He would look over the edge of the sofa down into the sea. Auteur: Virginia Woolf Copy Quote More from Virginia Woolf “All the time she writing the world had continued.” “Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. …” “Do you remember the lake?' she said, in an abrupt voice, under the pressure of …” “Better is it', she thought, 'to be clothed with poverty and ignorance, which ar…”