Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another …

Virginia Woolf
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Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.422, Wordsworth Editions
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