Mrs. Dalloway

Writer

Virginia Woolf

Language

English

ISBN

9781435172593

Number of pages

240

Publisher

Union Square & Co.

Category
Fiction
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In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell shock and is on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax.Over the course of a single day, Woolf achieves an uncanny simulacrum of consciousness, bringing past, present, and future together, and recording, minute by minute, the feel of life itself.

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The truth is ... that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. They hunt in packs. Their packs scour the desert and vanish screaming into the wilderness.

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The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?

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The skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

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Those ruffians, the Gods, shan't have it all their own way.

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Nothing is so strange when one is in love ... as the complete indifference of other people.

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The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

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Still, life had a way of adding day to day.

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A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

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What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

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"Roses," she thought sardonically, "All trash, m'dear."

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