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It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity to underline and perfect events – the shifts in the seasons and the weather, the changes that run through people themselves.
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Virginia Woolf
“It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.”
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf
“For women live much more in the past than we do- they attach themselves to places.”
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Emily Dickinson
“But are not all facts dreams as soon as we put them behind us?”
Emily Dickinson

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“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?”
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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