Virginia Woolf's Suicide letter to Leonard Woolf

'Dearest,
I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do.

You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know.

You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that - everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer.

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

V.'

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[Brunasi1]

The Perfect Letter

'I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.' V.

[Mitlond1]

Florence + The Machine - What the Water Gave Me ^^

[MissDenisaB]

Anyone crying here but me? (I can't even type something more like English ... ew it's a nonsense) I'M CRYING MY HEART OUT

[Time2Begin]

An absolutely gorgeous piece of writing.

[anniemae21337]

@xtian782 love that quote!

[Castillaleon19]

I love her voice

[nonsentirti]

"You have been in every way all that anyone could be."

[gotf]

@Brunasi1 That part is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard in my life.

[TrinTrevellion]

@graeme4prez Not exactly. Also, I'm a child of the movies. It's just that I feel angry sometimes, about a generation of people, who cannot distinguish between history and fiction. Today, everything is just a blurry mass market entertainment remix. Brilliant movie tho. But what really gets me, is this real letter.