To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness…

Virginia Woolf
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To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again! ✨ Virginia Woolf (2016). To the Lighthouse, p.175, Virginia Woolf
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