Virginia Woolf quote about love from Mrs Dalloway - Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing-room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!
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Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing-room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!
 Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925). copy citation

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Author Virginia Woolf
Source Mrs Dalloway
Topic love hate religion
Date 1925
Language English
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Weblink http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200991.txt

Context

“With a sudden impulse, with a violent anguish, for this woman was taking her daughter from her, Clarissa leant over the banisters and cried out, 'Remember the party! Remember our party tonight!'
But Elizabeth had already opened the front door; there was a van passing; she did not answer. Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing-room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are! For now that the body of Miss Kilman was not before her, it overwhelmed her—the idea. The cruellest things in the world, she thought, seeing them clumsy, hot, domineering, hypocritical, eavesdropping, jealous, infinitely cruel and unscrupulous, dressed in a mackintosh coat, on the landing; love and religion.” source

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