“ When one’s a boy, you see, one’s head is so full of dreams that it doesn’t seem to matter what one does. ”
Virginia Woolf, Night and Day (1919). copy citation
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
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| Source | Night and Day |
| Topic | dream |
| Date | 1919 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1245/1245-h/1245-h.htm |
Context
““It seemed to me meaningless.” He paused again, but felt that this, at any rate, was true, and that on these lines he could go on.
“All this money-making and working ten hours a day in an office, what’s it FOR? When one’s a boy, you see, one’s head is so full of dreams that it doesn’t seem to matter what one does. And if you’re ambitious, you’re all right; you’ve got a reason for going on. Now my reasons ceased to satisfy me. Perhaps I never had any. That’s very likely now I come to think of it. (What reason is there for anything, though?)”
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