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and to use one's hands and eyes; to talk to people; to be a straw on the river, now and then - passive, not striving to say this is this. if one does not lie back and sum up and say to the moment, stay you are so fair, what will be one's gain, dying? no: stay, this moment. no one ever says that enough. always hurry. I am now going in, to see L. and say stay this moment.

virginia woolf.