# Quote — Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

> Books are the mirrors of the soul.

- Author: [Virginia Woolf](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf.md)
- Book: [Between the Acts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/between-the-acts.md)
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> Mrs Swithin took her knitting from the table. 'Did you feel,' she asked, 'what he said: we act different parts but are the same?'

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> 'That was the burden,' she mused, 'laid on me in the cradle; murmured by waves; breathed by restless elm trees; crooned by singing women; what we must rememeber; what we would forget.'

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> Words rose above the intolerably laden dumb oxen plodding through the mud. Words without meaning - wonderful words.

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