If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some …

Virginia Woolf
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If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2006). To the Lighthouse, p.4, OUP Oxford
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