The Hours (2002)

Stephen Dillane: Leonard Woolf

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• Virginia Woolf : Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. It's contrast.

  Leonard Woolf : And who will die? Tell me.

  Virginia Woolf : The poet will die. The visionary.

• Virginia Woolf : I'm dying in this town.

  Leonard Woolf : If you were thinking clearly, Virginia, you would recall it was London that brought you low.

  Virginia Woolf : If I were thinking clearly? If I were thinking clearly?

  Leonard Woolf : We brought you to Richmond to give you peace.

  Virginia Woolf : If I were thinking clearly, Leonard, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark, in the deep dark, and that only I can know. Only I can understand my condition. You live with the threat, you tell me you live with the threat of my extinction. Leonard, I live with it too.

• Leonard Woolf : If I didn't know you better I'd call this ingratitude.

  Virginia Woolf : I am ungrateful? You call ME ungrateful? My life has been stolen from me. I'm living in a town I have no wish to live in... I'm living a life I have no wish to live... How did this happen?

• Virginia Woolf : Leonard, I believe I may have a first sentence.

  Leonard Woolf : Work, then.

• Leonard Woolf : Do you think it's possible that bad writing actually attracts a higher incidence of error?

• Leonard Woolf : Virginia, you have an obligation to your own sanity.