I will not be famous, great. I will go on adventuring, changing, openi…

Virginia Woolf
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I will not be famous, great. I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2003). A Writer's Diary, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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