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Which Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
- The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
- Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
- One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
- That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
- If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to…
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