“Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger's-breadth from goodness.”

— Virginia Woolf, "Montaigne", The Common Reader (1925)

About Virginia Woolf

1882 – 1941

English author and essayist considered one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. Known for stream-of-consciousness writing and pioneering essays on women and literature.

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