p. 21 :
« But through them all (if they do their job properly) there will emerge, whatever their religious or political belief, a principle which is the principle of art and, in consequence, an important aid to satisfactory living. It is the rule of proportion. »

p. 22 :
« Now this is precisely what Virginia Woolf does. We feel, throughout her novels, the big abstract movements going on : the feminism of The year, monarchy and the war in Mrs Dalloway, the pressure of Europe’s coming doom in Between the acts ; but these things do not submerge the delicate, exact understanding and handling, of the human situation. Her people live. » Et plus loin, dans « the subtle relations between individuals », « the subtle » souligné...

p. 24 :
« It is the poets and the great novelist who reduce us to our pure humanity, to the forked radish, the unaccommodated man ; and stripped of the trappings of grandeur and vanity we see ourselves again as we are, solitary, vulnerable, and transient. »

p. 25 :
Dans la phrase « Virginia Woolf’s standpoint is, above all, this standpoint of truth », « standpoint of truth » souligné. Plus loin : « But for Virginia Woolf there is not one kind of truth, there are two. There is the truth of the reason and there is the truth of the imagination. The truth of the reason is preminently the masculine sphere, while the truth of the imagination, or intuition, is the feminine. Together, these truths make up what she calls reality. There are individuals who combine the male and the female modes of perception more impartially than others ; these are the artists, the poets and painters who mediate reality to us. They show us how neither the rational nor the intuitive can get on without the other. »
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