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To the Lighthouse quotes

Virginia Woolf

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“What is the meaning of life? That was all—a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles,...” Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.” Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have—to want and want—how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!” Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
“So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.” Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
“she felt . . . how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.” Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
“it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge” Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
“About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she murmured, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.” Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
“But beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty—it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life—froze it.” Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
“He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.” Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
“one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.” Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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