She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents …

Virginia Woolf
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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 with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.286, Wordsworth Editions
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