Virginia Woolf “ Pure sea-water on pure sand is almost the loveliest thing in the world ” (Temiz kum üstünde temiz deniz suyu, dünyanın neredeyse en güzel şeyidir) der mektuplarından birinde.
To the Lighthouse ’ da (Fener ’ e Doğru) ve The Waves ’ de (Dalgalar) denizin böylesine önemli bir yer tutmasının, ço cukluk anılarından kaynaklandığı besbellidir.
why he needed always praise; why so brave a man in thought should be so timid in life; how strangely he was venerable and laughable at one and the same time.
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The door of the lighthouse was ajar. They pushed it open and walked into a shuttered twilight. Through an archway on the further side of the room they could see the bottom of the staircase that led up to the higher floors. Just under the crown of the arch dangled a pair of feet.
‘Mr Savage!’
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To The Lighthouse bir ağıttır gerçekten de; annesine, babasına, çocukluğuna yakılan bir ağıt.
Strife, divisions, difference on opinion, prejudices twisted into the very fibre of being, oh, that they should begin so early, Mrs. Ramsay deplored. They were so critical, her children.
Sayfa 12
As summer neared, as the evenings lentghened, there came to the wakeful, the hopeful, walking the beach, stirring the pool, imaginations of the strangest kind---of flesh turned to atoms which drove before the wind, of stars flashing in their hearts, of cliff, sea, cloud, and sky brought purposely together to assemble outwardly the scattered parts of the vision within.
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"When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey, her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better - her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties."
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Teaching and preaching is beyond human power, Lily suspected. If you are exalted you must somehow come a cropper.
Sayfa 59
How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it was liking one felt or disliking?
Sayfa 32
For there are moments when one can neither think nor feel. And if one can neither think nor feel, she thought, where is one?
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