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‘No,’ she said. ‘Some things you don’t understand, of course.’

‘Of course,’ Helen agreed. ‘So now you can go ahead and be a person on your own account,’ she added.

The vision of her own personality, of herself as a real everlasting thing, different from anything else, unmergeable, like the sea or the wind, flashed into Rachel’s mind, and she became profoundly excited at the thought of living.
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- Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
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"It seemed to her now that she wanted many more things than the love of one human being - the sea, the sky. She turned again and looked at the distant blue which was so smooth and serene where the sky met the sea; yes,she could not possibly want only one human being."

- Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
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"She became acutely conscious of the little limbs, the thin veins, the delicate flesh of men and women, which breaks so easily and lets the life escape compared with these great trees and deep waters."

- Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
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