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"Written by Joseph Conrad,

“I would have given anything for the power to soothe her frail soul, tormenting itself in its invincible ignorance like a small bird beating about the cruel wires of a cage.”

The lines have been taken from “Lord Jim”. Helplessness of the soul is being compared with a bird in a cage beating itself against the merciless wires of the cage to be free."

 (“To the Lighthouse”, Virginia Woolf )

“. . . impressions poured in upon her of those two men, and to follow her thought was like following a voice which speaks too quickly to be taken down by one’s pencil . . .”

"She says both are difficult to follow and cannot be composed in words with a pencil. "