Mrs Dalloway Key Quotes

Clarissa-“She could not dispel a virginity preserved through childbirth”
“match burning in a crocus”

“ Do u remember how the blinds use to flap at bourton”

“The curtain with its flight of birds or paradise blew out”

“She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day”

“Most exquisite moment of her whole life.”

“She knew nothing; no language, no history; she scarcely read a book now, except memoirs in bed”

“The obvious thing to say of her was that she cared too much or rank and society”
“Holding her life in her arms”...“this is what I’ve made of it “

“By artificial light the green shone, but lost its color now”

“Made to hide her dress, like a virgin protecting chastity”

“Behind it all was that network of visiting, leaving cards, being kind to people; running about with bunches of flowers, little presents...all that interminable traffic that women of her sort keep up”.

“Oh! Thought Clarissa, in the middle of my party here’s death, she thought”

“Life is made intolerable; they make life intolerable, men like that?”

“She was not worldly like Clarissa; not rich”
Septimus-Look, Look, Septimus!’ she cried. For Dr Holmes had told her to make her husband (who had nothing whatever seriously the matter with him but was a little out of sort) take an interest in things outside himself.”
“The last shells missed him”

“It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning”.

“Men trapped in mines; women burnt alive”.

“He had gone through the whole show” but “He was bound to survive”

“The bed was falling; he was falling”

“Beauty [from] behind a pane of glass.”

“Congratulated himself upon feeling very little”

“When he stared so and did not see her it made everything terrible”

“Secret signal which one generation passes, under disguise, to the next is loathing, hatred, despair.”

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