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Virginia Woolf "I am ungrateful? You call ME ungrateful? My life has been stolen from me. I'm living in a town I have no wish to live in... I'm living a life I have no wish to live... How did this happen?" "If I were thinking clearly, Leonard, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark, in the deep dark, and that only I can know. Only I can understand my condition. You live with the threat, you tell me you live with the threat of my extinction. Leonard, I live with it too." "This is my right; it is the right of every human being. I choose not the suffocating anesthetic of the suburbs, but the violent jolt of the Capital, that is my choice. The meanest patient, yes, even the very lowest is allowed some say in the matter of her own prescription. Thereby she defines her humanity. I wish, for your sake, Leonard, I could be happy in this quietness. [pause] But if it is a choice between Richmond and death, I choose death." "You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard." "Dear Leonard, To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to love it, for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard, always the years between us, always the years, always the love, always...the hours..." "I've been attended by doctors, who inform me of my own interests." "A woman's whole life, in a single day, just one day, and then that day, her whole life." Laura Brown "What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is...it was death. I chose life." "Obviously, you...feel unworthy. Gives you feelings of unworthiness. You survive and they don't." Clarissa Vaughn "So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And, of course, there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment - right then." "That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other." "Why is everything wrong?" Richard Brown "Ah, Mrs. Dalloway... always giving parties to cover the silence." "What about your own life? Just wait until I die, then you will have to think of yourself." "I don't think two people could have been happier than we've been." Multiple People Vanessa Bell: "Virginia." Virginia Woolf: "Leonard thinks it's the end of civilization: People who are invited at 4 and arrive at 2:30." Vanessa Bell: "Oh god." Virginia Woolf: "Barbarians." Richard Brown: "I don't think I can make it to the party, Clarissa." Clarissa Vaughn: "Uh...you don't have to go to the party, you don't have to go to the ceremony, you don't have to do anything you don't want to do. You can do as you like." Richard Brown: "But I still have to face the hours, don't I? I mean, the hours after the party, and the hours after that..." Clarissa Vaughn: "You do have good days still...you know you do." Richard Brown: "Not really...I mean, it's kind of you to say so, but it's not really true." Julia: Mom! What's wrong? Clarissa Vaughn: He gives me that look, as if to say your life is so trivial. Julia: It only matters if you think its true. Laura Brown: "We're baking the cake for daddy, to show him that we love him." Richie Brown: "Otherwise he won't know?" [pause] Laura Brown: "That's right." Kitty: "Oh, you're reading a book?" Laura Brown: "Yeah." Kitty: "What's this one about?" Laura Brown: "Oh, it's about this woman who's incredibly - well, she's a hostess and she's incredibly confident and she's going to give a party. And, maybe because she's confident, everyone thinks she's fine... but she isn't." Richard Brown: "Who is this party for?" Clarissa Vaughan: "What are you asking, what are you trying to say?" Richard Brown: "I'm not trying to say anything. I think I'm staying alive just to satisfy you." Miscellaneous Vanessa Bell: "Your aunt is a very lucky woman, Angelica. She is because she has two lives. She has the life, she is leading and also the books, she is writing." Dan Brown: "This life is what I always wanted. I had a vision of our happiness." Sally: [to Clarissa] Why do I always have to sit next to the exes? Is this some kind of a hint, sweetheart? Anyway, shouldn't the exes have a table of their own, where they can all ex together in ex-quisite agony?