“I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love; love makes knots; love brutally tears them apart. I have been knotted; I have been torn apart.”

—  Virginia Woolf, book The Waves

Source: The Waves

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English writer 1882–1941

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