

“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes its way to the surface.”
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“There it was before her - life. Life: she thought but she did not finish her thought. She took a look at life, for she had a clear sense of it there, something real, something private, which she shared neither with her children nor with her husband. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her; and sometimes they parleyed (when she sat alone); there were, she remembered, great reconciliation scenes; but for the most part, oddly enough, she must admit that she felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse

“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
― The Waves
― The Waves

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