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Quotation from Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf

“Life? Literature? One to be made into the other? But how monstrously difficult!”

Virginia Woolf (spoken by Orlando (narrated thought))

Orlando: A Biography, Chapter 6 (Project Gutenberg Australia #0200331)

Portrait of Virginia Woolf

Reading a newspaper in the park, Orlando wonders how Addison or Lamb would have described the scene before her.

Citation: "Life? Literature? One to be made into the other? But how monstrously difficult!" — Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, Chapter 6 (Project Gutenberg Australia #0200331). (id orlando-q6)

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

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