I am reading Henry James ... and feel myself as one entombed in a
block of smooth amber.
-- Virginia Woolf
block of smooth amber.
-- Virginia Woolf
Related:
- For there are moments when one can neither think nor feel.
And if one can neither think nor feel, she thought... - I am not a Virginian, but an American.
-- Patrick Henry (1736-1799)
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Speech in the Virginia Convention, September... - I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
Virginia... - I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to
cross the street.
Virginia... - Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever
in amber,
a more than royal tomb. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)... - For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
--
Virginia... - I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some
people did.
Henry... - Illusions are the most valuable and necessary of all things,
and she who can create one is among the world's greatest... - The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
Henry...
From the same category:
- Tigre contro tigre.
[tiger against tiger... - He coude songes make, and wel endite.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400)
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Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line... - This is a good time to
punt work... - The quality of a champagne is judged by the amount of noise the
cork makes when it is popped.
Mencken and Nathan's Ninth Law of The Average... - Taking out without putting in is the quickest way to the bottom,
for the course is never up...
