Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that weβI mean all human beingsβare connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself. β¨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.4186, Delphi Classics
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