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"He refused to tell her. He could not explain to her that he was offering up consciously all his happiness to her, and wished, absurdly enough, to pour every possession he had upon the blazing pyre, even his silver and gold. He wished to keep his distance between them - the distance which separates the devotee from the image in the shrine."

"Perhaps, Mary, our affections are the shadow of an idea."

The intricacies which Woolf can describe the human psyche is astounding! Obsessed with the inner working of every characters mind within this novel so far.

“If love is a devastating fire which melts the whole being into one mountain torrent, Mary was no more in love with Denham than she was in love with her poker or her tongs. But probably these extreme passions are very rare, and the state of mind thus depicted belongs to the very last stages of love, when the power to resist has been eaten away, week by week, day by day.”