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1 " The dawn, even when it is cold and melancholy, never fails to shoot through my limbs as with arrows of sparkling piercing ice. I pull aside the thick curtains, and search for the first glow in the sky which shows that life is breaking through. And with my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall of time, which is for ever lifting and pulling and letting fresh spaces of life in upon us. May it be mine to taste the moment before it has spread itself over the rest of the world! "
― Virginia Woolf , The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf
2 " ... for there was neither pride nor regret in his tone; indeed it kept its level note, as of one who tells a tale so well known that the words have been rubbed smooth of meaning. "
3 " It's an easy thing to confess one's faults. But what dusk is deep enough to hide one's virtues? "
4 " Why," she asked "if men write such rubbish as this, should our mothers have wasted their youth in bringing them into the world?"(from A Society) "
5 " Fazendo a irmã mais nova sua confidente, viera para Londres, deixando à família uma dessas cartas ridículas que os grandes homens escrevem e que são publicadas um dia, quando já se tornaram célebres e todos desejam saber a história das suas lutas e das suas dores. "
