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The Waves Quotes

How much better is silence; the coffee-cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee-cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

Source:(The Hogarth Press, ed. 1931), Page 210
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Virginia Woolf - Book Quotes
  • Book: The Waves
  • Writer: Virginia Woolf
  • Genre: Classics, Fiction
  • Published: 1931
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