So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the m…

Virginia Woolf
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So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2016). To the Lighthouse, p.15, Virginia Woolf
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