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Quotation from Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf

“For the philosopher is right who says that nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy”

Virginia Woolf (spoken by Narrator (the biographer))

Orlando: A Biography, Chapter 1 (Project Gutenberg Australia #0200331)

Portrait of Virginia Woolf

In the midst of his joy with Sasha on the ice, Orlando falls into sudden moods of melancholy and thinks of death.

Citation: "For the philosopher is right who says that nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy" — Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, Chapter 1 (Project Gutenberg Australia #0200331). (id orlando-q2)

Portrait: Virginia Woolf 1927, Unknown author, Public domain.

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