Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground."
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"For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground."
Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust."
Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high."
Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice."
Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."
Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."
Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."
Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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