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For now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of – to think; well, not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.

Source:(The Hogarth Press, ed. 1927), Part I. The Window, Chapter 11, Page 99
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  • Book: To the Lighthouse
  • Writer: Virginia Woolf
  • Genre: Classics, Fiction
  • Published: 1927
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