“There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not a grand adventure, but a series of small, insignificant moments, that love is not a fairy tale, but a fragile, fleeting emotion, that happiness is not a permanent state, but a rare, fleeting glimpse of something we can never hold onto. And in that understanding, there is a profound loneliness, a sense of being cut off from the world, from other people, from oneself.”

~Virginia Woolf

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She was friends with Keynes, no wonder she was depressed.

sad, Virginia was troubled by mental illness throughout her life, was institutionalized several times and attempted suicide twice before drowning herself (by filling her overcoat pockets with stones and walking into a river in1941).