#to the lighthouse

It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one;...

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For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of -

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The words sounded as if they were floating like flowers on water,

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She was bound hand and foot and unable to move by the intensity of feelings which reduced her own body, her own life, and

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Could loving, as people called it, make her and Mrs Ramsay one? for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired,

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