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"The immediate result of the coming of these good tidings of great joy to me was no outward change in anything, but an inward change of everything. Elisabeth Rundle Charles" — Dec 17, 2017 06:30PM
"The immediate result of the coming of these good tidings of great joy to me was no outward change in anything, but an inward change of everything. Elisabeth Rundle Charles" — Dec 17, 2017 06:30PM
“I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.”
― The Voyage Out
― The Voyage Out
“You look, eat, smile, are bored, pleased, annoyed - that is all I know. Yet this shadow which has sat by me for an hour or two, this mask from which peep two eyes, has power to drive me back, to pinion me down among all those other faces, to shut me in a hot room; to send me dashing like a moth from candle to candle.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“Loneliness is the diary keeper’s lover. It is not narcissism that takes them to their desk every day. And who “keeps” whom, after all? The diary is demanding; it imposes its routine; it must be chored the way one must milk a cow; and it alters your attitude toward life, which is lived, finally, only in order that it may makes it way to the private page.
[From "Fifty Literary Pillars", p.35]”
― A Temple of Texts
[From "Fifty Literary Pillars", p.35]”
― A Temple of Texts
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