Jacob's Room

by Virginia Woolf
England
25 Jan 1882 // 28 Mar 1941
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Marvelous are the innocent.

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Anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

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Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned - in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

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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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Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins - of happiness and unhappiness.

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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

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