For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by hersel…

Virginia Woolf
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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 - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2016). To the Lighthouse, p.58, Tyché
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