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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."
— Jun 30, 2025 01:51PM
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Moriah
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"She was surprised by the violence of her desire that he never should think of it again. For an instant it seemed to her impossible to surrender an intimacy, which might not be the intimacy of love, but was certainly the intimacy of true friendship, to any woman in the world."
— Jun 19, 2025 08:44PM
Moriah
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"Perhaps, Mary, our affections are the shadow of an idea."
— Jun 02, 2025 02:07PM
Moriah
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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.
— Mar 24, 2025 09:10PM
Moriah
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“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.”
— Mar 13, 2025 11:33AM
