“We're all in the dark. We try to find out, but can you imagine anything more ludicrous than one person's opinion of another person? One goes along thinking one knows; but one really doesn't know”

—  Virginia Woolf, book The Voyage Out

Source: The Voyage Out

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English writer 1882–1941

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