Virginia Woolf Quote

She had done the usual trick – been nice. She would never know him. He would never know her. Human relations were all like that, she thought, and the worst (if it had not been for Mr Bankes) were between men and women. Inevitably these were extremely insincere.


Part I, Chapter 17. - To the Lighthouse (1927)


She had done the usual trick – been nice. She would never know him. He would never know her. Human relations were all like that, she thought, and...

She had done the usual trick – been nice. She would never know him. He would never know her. Human relations were all like that, she thought, and...

She had done the usual trick – been nice. She would never know him. He would never know her. Human relations were all like that, she thought, and...

She had done the usual trick – been nice. She would never know him. He would never know her. Human relations were all like that, she thought, and...