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“[Clarissa] had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone.”
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“The sheet was stretched and the bed narrow. [Clarissa] had gone up into the tower alone and left them blackberrying in the sun.”
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“[Lucrezia] was like a bird sheltering under the thin hollow of a leaf, who blinks at the sun when the leaf moves; starts at the crack of a dry twig.”
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“[Septimus’] body was macerated until only the nerve fibres were left. It was spread like a veil upon a rock.”
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6
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“The War had taught [Septimus]. It was sublime. He had gone through the whole show, friendship, European War, death, had won promotion, was still under thirty and was bound to survive. He was right there. The last shells missed him. He watched them explode with indifference.”
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“[Human beings] hunt in packs. Their packs scour the desert and vanish screaming into the wilderness. They desert the fallen. They are plastered over with grimaces.”
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“She should have been in a factory; behind a counter; Mrs. Dalloway and all the other fine ladies!”
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9
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“There remained only the window... the tiresome, the troublesome, and rather melodramatic business of opening the window and throwing himself out.”
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10
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“These triumphs... had a hollowness; at arm’s length they were, not in the heart; and it might be that [Clarissa] was growing old but they satisfied her no longer as they used.”
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12
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“if ever a woman could have worn the helmet and shot the arrow, could have led troops to attack, ruled with indomitable justice barbarian hordes and lain under a shield noseless in a church, or made a green grass mound on some primeval hillside, that woman was Millicent Bruton.
Debarred by her sex, and some truancy, too, of the logical faculty.”
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12
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“It was [Clarissa’s] punishment to see sink and disappear here a man, there a woman, in this profound darkness, and she forced to stand here in her evening dress.”
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