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It reads as a claim that honesty is indivisible. The line points to self-knowledge as the foundation for speaking about anyone else with fairness, because evasion about oneself distorts judgment outward too, and it lands when someone is tempted to judge others while skipping their own faults.
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About Virginia Woolf
English writer, 20th-century modernist author
Virginia Woolf was an English writer and a major modernist author of the 20th century. She is especially known for helping to pioneer stream of consciousness narration in fiction. Her work helped shape modern literature through its formal experimentation and attention to inner thought. She is remembered above all for the narrative technique she helped develop, which became influential in later writing.
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Books by Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
An essay on women and writing.