"I cannot remember my past, my nose,..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.
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“The depths of the sea are only water after all.”
“Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation, like God himself, to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down.”
“Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.”
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“A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.”
“In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.”
“What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?”