My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable w…

Virginia Woolf
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My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2003). A Writer's Diary, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2003). A Writer's Diary, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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