“ If you're clever it's always taken for granted that you're completely without sympathy, understanding, affection—all the things that really matter. ”
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (1915). copy citation
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
|---|---|
| Source | The Voyage Out |
| Topic | sympathy affection |
| Date | 1915 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/144/144-h/144-h.htm |
Context
“Hirst interrupted, "spends her life in East Lambeth among the degraded poor. I only quoted my Aunt because she is inclined to persecute people she calls 'intellectual,' which is what I suspect Miss Vinrace of doing. It's all the fashion now. If you're clever it's always taken for granted that you're completely without sympathy, understanding, affection—all the things that really matter. Oh, you Christians! You're the most conceited, patronising, hypocritical set of old humbugs in the kingdom! Of course," he continued, "I'm the first to allow your country gentlemen great merits. For one thing, they're probably quite frank about their passions, which we are not.”
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