Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They say Yes, they say No; whereas I shift and change and am seen through in a second. If they meet a housemaid she looks at them without laughing. But she laughs at me. They know what to say if spoken to. They laugh really; they get angry really; while I have to look first and do what other people do when they have done it. β¨ Virginia Woolf (2016). The Collected Novels of Virginia Woolf - Volume I - The Years, The Waves, p.26, Read Books Ltd
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- There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination. β¨ Virginia Woolf (2013). The Common Reader, p.64, Lulu Press, Inc
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