Only those who have little need of the truth, and no respect for it - the poets and novelists - can be trusted to do it, for this is one of the cases where the truth does no exist. Nothing exists. The whole thing is a miasma - a mirage. (Virginia Woolf)

Only those who have little need of the truth, and no respect for it - the poets and novelists - can be trusted to do it, for this is one of the cases where the truth does no exist. Nothing exists. The whole thing is a miasma - a mirage.

Virginia Woolf

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