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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.

Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (via hauntingcontradiction)
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Posted on January 25, 2012 via the shock of sensation with 99 notes

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