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Jacob's Room quotes

Virginia Woolf

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“It is no use trying to sum people up.” Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
“Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins—of happiness and unhappiness.” Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.” Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
“any one who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, with extravagant enthusiasm.” Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
“Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title” Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
“When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.” Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
“Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.” Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
“It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.” Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

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