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Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

Top 10 Best Quotes

“She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.”

“He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.”

“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”

“It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.”

“Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence”

“Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, 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?”

“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.”

“It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.”

“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”

“To love makes one solitary.”

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Book Keywords:

love, life, logic, meaning

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