WORDS FAIL ME (29 April 1937 BBC) Virginia Woolf gives eulogy to words (7 min 29)
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"... that behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we - I mean all human beings - are 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. (From a "Sketch of the Past").
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