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Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway (1925)

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A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

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For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles of giant weeds, over sun-flickered spaces and on and on into gloom, cold, deep, inscrutable; suddenly she shoots to the surface and sports on the wind-wrinkled waves; that is, has a positive need to brush, scrape, kindle herself, gossiping.

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Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

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For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.
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Born: January 25, 1882
Died: March 28, 1941 (aged 59)
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