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Quotes from Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
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1  Empty, empty, empty; silent, silent, silent.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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2  At this early hour of a June morning the library was empty.
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3  The stage was empty; the actors were still dressing up among the bushes.
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4  "They come every year," said Mrs. Swithin, ignoring the fact that she spoke to the empty air.
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5  The cows annihilated the gap; bridged the distance; filled the emptiness and continued the emotion.
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6  She flushed, as if she had spoken in an empty room and someone had stepped out from behind a curtain.
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7  Yet the stage was empty; only the cows moved in the meadows; only the tick of the gramophone needle was heard.
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8  There they sat, facing the empty stage, the cows, the meadows and the view, while the machine ticked in the bushes.
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9  For the stage was empty; the emotion must be continued; the only thing to continue the emotion was the song; and the words were inaudible.
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10  The room was a shell, singing of what was before time was; a vase stood in the heart of the house, alabaster, smooth, cold, holding the still, distilled essence of emptiness, silence.
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11  The Barn, the Noble Barn, the barn that had been built over seven hundred years ago and reminded some people of a Greek temple, others of the middle ages, most people of an age before their own, scarcely anybody of the present moment, was empty.
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