What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, …

Virginia Woolf
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What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying ✨ Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas, p.143
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