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Quotation from Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf

“Orlando had become a woman--there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been.”

Virginia Woolf (spoken by Narrator (the biographer))

Orlando: A Biography, Chapter 3 (Project Gutenberg Australia #0200331)

Portrait of Virginia Woolf

After the trumpets of Truth wake Orlando in Constantinople, the biographer pauses to state the fact of the change and that memory and identity are unbroken.

Citation: "Orlando had become a woman--there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been." — Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, Chapter 3 (Project Gutenberg Australia #0200331). (id orlando-q4)

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

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