How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better…

Virginia Woolf
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How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2005). The Waves, p.253, Collector's Library
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