I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken wo…

Virginia Woolf
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I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2016). The Waves, p.176, Virginia Woolf
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I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2016). The Waves, p.176, Virginia Woolf

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