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Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.

Virginia Woolf
Silly, Thinking, Sentimental
Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.191, Broadview Press
Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.