“I am amused at my relations with her: left so ardent in January – and now what? Also I like her presence and her beauty. Am I in love with her? But what is love? Her being 'in love' with me, excites and flatters; and interests. What is this 'love?”

—  Virginia Woolf

Thursday 20 May 1926
A Moment's Liberty (1990)

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