Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothi…

Virginia Woolf
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Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2016). The Waves, p.165, Virginia Woolf
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