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Excerpt from "To The Lighthouse" (1927)

Virgina Woolf (1882 - 1941)

"...It was one's body feeling, not one's mind. The physical
sensations that went with the bare look of the steps had become
suddenly extremely unpleasant. To want and not to have, sent all up
her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then  to want and not
to have--to want and want--how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again
and again!"