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Mrs Dalloway quotes

Virginia Woolf

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“she thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“There was an emptiness about the heart of life; an attic room. Women must put off their rich apparel. At midday they must disrobe.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“As a cloud crosses the sun, silence falls on London; and falls on the mind.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“Unfortunately, yes; the people we care for most are not good for us when we are ill.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“nothing is so strange when one is in love . . . as the complete indifference of other people.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“Absorbing, mysterious, of infinite richness, this life.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“Fear no more, says the heart in the body; fear no more.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“Every one has friends who were killed in the War. Every one gives up something when they marry.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“What does the brain matter . . . compared with the heart?” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“It might be possible, Septimus thought, looking at England from the train window, as they left Newhaven; it might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes—one of the tragedies of married life.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“Like the pulse of a perfect heart, life struck straight through the streets.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely; all this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“Sir William said he never spoke of 'madness'; he called it not having a sense of proportion.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“She came from the most worthless of all classes—the rich, with a smattering of culture.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“Anyhow there was no bitterness in her; none of that sense of moral virtue which is so repulsive in good women. She enjoyed practically everything.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing-room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“And she didn't know their names, but friends she knew they were, friends without names, songs without words, always the best.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“She would not say of any one in the world now that they were this or were that.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“a lady is known by her shoes and her gloves.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink;” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

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