“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“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.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
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