"But love – don’t we all talk a great deal of nonsense about it? What does one mean? ... It’s only a story one makes up in one’s mind about another per...
To love makes one solitary.
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"Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!
"Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences.
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"Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.
"And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?