Virginia Woolf

a biography

Orlando

Has the finger of death to be laid on the tumult of life from time to time lest it rend us asunder? Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

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Francesca 

Elena Menendez

He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; 

he felt the need of something which he could attach his floating heart to; the heart that tugged at his side; the heart that seemed filled with spiced and amorous gales every evening about this time when he walked out. 

For the philosopher is right who says that nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy; 

all extremes of feeling are allied to madness

Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue. English was too frank, too candid, too honeyed a speech  

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