There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell d…

Virginia Woolf
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There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.1069, Delphi Classics
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There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.1069, Delphi Classics

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