All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined,…

Virginia Woolf
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All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far from it and given it the changed look, the composed look, of something receding in which one has no longer any part. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2015). To the Lighthouse, p.128, Virginia Woolf
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