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Nothing could be seen whole or read from start to finish. What was seen begun - like two friends starting to meet each other across the street - was never seen ended. After twenty minutes the body and mind were like scraps of torn paper tumbling from a sack and, indeed, the process of motoring fast out of London so much resembles the chopping small of identity which precedes unconsciousness and perhaps death itself...
- Virginia Woolf
And, what was even more exciting, she felt, too, as she saw Mr Ramsay bearing down and retreating, and Mrs Ramsay sitting with James in the window and the cloud moving and the tree bending, how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach. Mr
- Virginia Woolf
Never will I wake those echoes, never will I ask for that hospitality again, I vowed as I descended the steps in anger. Still an hour remained before luncheon, and what was one to do?
- Virginia Woolf
What is the meaning of life? That was all—a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years.
- Virginia Woolf
That she had grown older? Would he say that, or would she see him thinking when he came back, that she had grown older?
- Virginia Woolf
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Heavenly Father, you must think us such silly creatures, always worrying about tomorrow and letting today slip by.
- Lauraine Snelling
like this — I'd thought it would be neat and tidy, one reporter at a time. I didn't know then how Charlie Einfeld
- Lauren Bacall
The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
- Lauren Kate
I am the Ghost of Christmas Present.
- Charles Dickens
"I am the Ghost of Christmas Past." "Long past?" inquired Scrooge…. "No. Your past."
- Charles Dickens
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
- Charles Dickens