Eternity Quote by Virginia Woolf Download Open image “We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.” — Virginia Woolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Eternity Print Sight
“And thinking about this, which I have done so much, I discover that I come around, by a back door, to another of the things that obsess me. I mean, of course, this question of ‘personality’. Heaven knows we are never allowed to forget that the ‘personality’ doesn’t exist any more. It’s the theme of half the novels written, the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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