“ Only one person in the world could be as he was, in love. ”
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925). copy citation
Author | Virginia Woolf |
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Source | Mrs Dalloway |
Topic | love world |
Date | 1925 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200991.txt |
Context
“Oh these parties? he thought; Clarissa’s parties. Why does she give these parties? he thought. Not that he blamed her or this effigy of a man in a tail-coat with a carnation in his buttonhole coming towards him. Only one person in the world could be as he was, in love. And there he was, this fortunate man, himself, reflected in the plate-glass window of a motor-car manufacturer in Victoria Street.* All India lay behind him; plains, mountains; epidemics of cholera;”
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