Quotation by Virginia Woolf

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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.

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), British novelist. "On Not Knowing Greek," The Common Reader, First Series (1925).

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