A quote from To the Lighthouse
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A quote from To the Lighthouse
If you loved someone, even for a little, it’s because you knew them. And if someone loved you, even for a little, it’s because they knew you. The knowledge of that remains eternal.
Elle • to be loved is to be known
Romantic love finds its most passionate expression in private where only one particular person can “unperplex” the other
Of course they know each other, of course—as no other souls on earth know each other. This, above all other truths, must remain unspoken.
Michael D. O'Brien • Island of the World: A Novel
Could loving, as people called it, make her and Mrs Ramsay one?
Virginia Woolf • To the Lighthouse
Of all the billions of people in this world Raphael is the one I know best and love most. I understand much better now – better than Piranesi ever could – the magnificent thing she did in coming to find me, the magnitude of her courage. I know that she returns to the labyrinth often. Sometimes we go together; sometimes she goes alone. The quiet and
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