Woolf

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    When a subject is highly controversial ... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one’s audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery—always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    You send a boy to school in order to make friends—the right sort.
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)