“Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the center which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.”

—  Virginia Woolf, book Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

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English writer 1882–1941

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