Woolf's sentences follow thought rather than event. Notice how much happens on the first page in the space of a single walk.
Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. For Lucy had her work cut out for her.
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Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. Lucy had enough work to do as it was.
She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Watching the taxi cabs, she had a constant sense of being out, far out to sea and alone; she always felt that it was very, very dangerous to live even a single day.
A broken world, written in broken lines. Every answer comes with the reason and the line that proves it.
That's the whole thing.
Read it again slowly — it gets better the second time.