“Fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are
two thousand years? …What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the
long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast
Shakespeare.” —Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Quote of the Day (Virginia Woolf, on Fame’s Relative Impermanence)
“Fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are
two thousand years? …What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the
long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast
Shakespeare.” —Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)
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