Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
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- It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
- It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
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