She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, wou…

Virginia Woolf
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She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable --- this interminable life. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1996). Mrs Dalloway, p.118, Wordsworth Editions
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