“You said not to answer your letter, and above all I don’t want to trouble you with words now. And it is no time to speak of my own feeling. As far as I am concerned, a great deal of the meaning seems to have gone out of the world. She illuminated everything, and one referred the most trivial things to her in one’s thoughts. To have been allowed to know and love her is a great thing.”elizabeth bowen, letter to leonard woolf on learning of the death of virginia woolf, 8th april, 1941 - the mulberry tree, p.221.
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