Virginia Woolf quote about life from Mrs Dalloway - First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
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First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
 Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925). copy citation

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Author Virginia Woolf
Source Mrs Dalloway
Topic life time
Date 1925
Language English
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Weblink http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200991.txt

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“over twenty,—one feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a suspense (but that might be her heart, affected, they said, by influenza*) before Big Ben* strikes. There! Out it boomed. First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. Such fools we are, she thought, crossing Victoria Street.* For Heaven only knows why one loves it so, how one sees it so, making it up, building it round one, tumbling it, creating it every moment afresh; but the veriest frumps, the most dejected of miseries sitting on doorsteps (drink their downfall) do the same; can't be dealt with, she felt positive, by Acts of Parliament for that very reason: they love life.” source

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