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The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (The Original Unabridged 1942 Edition of 28 Essays), Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf

The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (The Original Unabridged 1942 Edition of 28 Essays)

  • bluesea19818has quoted9 years ago
    The eye is not a miner, not a diver, not a seeker after buried treasure. It floats us smoothly down a stream; resting, pausing, the brain sleeps perhaps as it looks.
  • Melhas quoted2 years ago
    But how are you going to get out, into the world of other people? That is your problem now, if I may hazard a guess—to find the right relationship, now that you know yourself, between the self that you know and the world outside.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    But what was it? Ah, we remember, it was a pencil. Let us go then and buy this pencil.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    It is only when we look at the past and take from it the element of uncertainty that we can enjoy perfect peace.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Let us put off buying the pencil; let us go in search of this person—and soon it becomes apparent that this person is ourselves.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    But the river is rougher and greyer than we remembered. The tide is running out to sea.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    As it is, we must turn, we must cross the Strand again, we must find a shop where, even at this hour, they will be ready to sell us a pencil.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    We put out the eyes and the ears; but we pinion it there, with a bottle of medicine, a cup of tea, a dying fire, like a rook on a barn door; but a rook that still lives, even with a nail through it.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    No one perhaps has ever felt passionately towards a lead pencil. But there are circumstances in which it can become supremely desirable to possess one; moments when we are set upon having an object, an excuse for walking half across London between tea and dinner.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes
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