“so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again…”

— Virginia Woolf , book To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

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English writer 1882–1941

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