"However, the majority of women are neither harlots nor courtesans; nor do they sit clasping pug dogs to dusty velvet all through the summer afternoon....
Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
~ Virginia Woolf ~
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Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
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"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.
"He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life.
"Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.
"Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!
"Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences.
"To love makes one solitary.
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"An offering for the sake of offering, perhaps. Anyhow, it was her gift. Nothing else had she of the slightest importance; could not think, write, even...
"I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.But he never liked anyone who--our friends,' said Clarissa; and could have bitten her tongue...
"Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.
"And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?
"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?
"(June had drawn out every leaf on the trees. The mothers of Pimlico gave suck to their young. Messages were passing from the Fleet to the Admiralty. A...
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