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Quotation by Virginia Woolf
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A Writer's Diary ed. Leonard Woolf (1954)
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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), British novelist. "On Not Knowing Greek," The Common Reader, First Series (1925).
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