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To the Lighthouse Quotes

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes. - Virginia Woolf (To the Lighthouse Quotes)

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

Source:(The Hogarth Press, ed. 1927), Part I. The Window, Chapter 8, Page 73
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Virginia Woolf - Book Quotes
  • Book: To the Lighthouse
  • Writer: Virginia Woolf
  • Genre: Classics, Fiction
  • Published: 1927
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