To the Lighthouse

"What is the meaning of life? That was all—a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark."

"She had the feeling that it was very short, life so short, and that it was already half over, and that it was a great waste of time, and that the only thing to do was to make one's self useful."

"It was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge."

"One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that’s a chair, that’s a table, and yet at the same time, it’s a miracle, it’s an ecstasy."

"No one goes to the Lighthouse now, James thought, looking at the lighthouse. The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly in the evening."

"They remained for a moment standing together in the great hall, and the silence of the house seemed to be pressing on them, as if the house had been empty for a long time."

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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer and central figure of literary modernism, known for innovative narrative techniques in novels such as 'Mrs Dalloway' and 'To the Lighthouse'.