“It was January and dismal,”
— Virginia Woolf, from The Complete Works; “Jacob’s Room,” wr. c. 1922
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“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
— Tom Bodett (via quotemadness)
“How lonely it is: A winter world full of rain, Rain raining on rain.”
— Richard Wright, from “Haiku: This Other World”