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Woolf · 1925
Canon spine row 142. Woolf — Mrs Dalloway. Era: 1925. Lang: English.
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A single London day holds a lifetime of longing, mortality, and the self's irreducible strangeness.
self-and-identity
She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on — a perpetual sense of being out, far out to sea and alone.
MRSDA-RC-006Take me with you, Clarissa thought impulsively — then it was as if five acts of a play were now over and she had lived a lifetime in them.
MRSDA-RC-036She's grown older, he thought. Exactly the same, thought Clarissa — the same queer look; the same check suit.
MRSDA-RC-031'I am in love,' he said, not to her however, but to someone raised up in the dark so that you could not touch her but must lay your garland down on the grass.
MRSDA-RC-034mortality
At fifty-three one scarcely needed people any more. Life itself, every moment, here, this instant, now, in the sun — was enough. Too much indeed.
MRSDA-RC-062This battered old woman would still be there in ten million years, remembering how once she had walked in May, with whom it did not matter — he had loved her.
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