Virginia Woolf Quotes

If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?

Virginia Woolf

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• If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Reality
  • Mean
  • Feelings