She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, … - Virginia Woolf

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For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

Virginia Woolf

She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!

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