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Virginia Woolf1882–1941

Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.

Virginia Woolf on life and death

Mrs Dalloway (1925), Part 10

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