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Jacob's Room

This gloom, this surrender to the dark waters which lap us about, is a modern invention.

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Quote from Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf in Popular Culture - Quote published by 7 months ago ()

She had the rapt look of one brushing through crowds on a summer’s afternoon, when the trees are rustling, the wheels churning yellow, and the tumult of the present seems like an elegy for past happiness and past summers, and there rose in her mind a curious sadness, as if time and eternity showed through skirts and waistcoasts, and she saw people passing tragically to destruction.

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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title...

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