“She felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, …”

“She felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance. There were the eternal problems: suffering; death; the poor. There was always a woman dying of cancer even here. And yet she had said to all these children, You shall go through with it.”

— Virginia Woolf

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Title: Wikiquote: Virginia Woolf
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Context

Part I, Ch. 10

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Woolf, Virginia. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Virginia Woolf. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf

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