Important Quotations Explained
1. For
Heaven only knows why one loves it so, how one sees it so, making
it up, building it round one, tumbling it, creating it every moment
afresh; but the veriest frumps, the most dejected of miseries sitting
on doorsteps (drink their downfall) do the same; can't be dealt
with, she felt positive, by Acts of Parliament for that very reason:
they love life.
2. She
had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out,
out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it
was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
3. This
late age of the world's experience had bred in them all, all men
and women, a well of tears. Tears and sorrows; courage and endurance;
a perfectly upright and stoical bearing.
4. Clarissa
had a theory in those days . . . that since our apparitions, the
part of us which appears, are so momentary compared with the other,
the unseen part of us, which spreads wide, the unseen might survive,
be recovered somehow attached to this person or that, or even haunting certain
places after death . . . perhaps—perhaps.
5. She
felt somehow very like him—the young man who had killed himself.
She felt glad that he had done it; thrown it away. The clock was
striking. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. He made her feel
the beauty; made her feel the fun. But she must go back. She must
assemble.
