Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himse…

Virginia Woolf
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Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2012). Orlando: A Biography, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2012). Orlando: A Biography, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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