Small Submerged Atoll

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or submerged:

“My consolation is to think of the women I have known, now that there is no longer such thing as elegance. But how can people who contemplate these horrible creatures under their hats covered in pigeon-houses or gardens, how can they understand the charm of seeing Madame Swann wearing a simple mauve cap or a small hat surmounted by a straight iris?”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)