She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of…

Virginia Woolf
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She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2012). Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition, p.192, Broadview Press
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She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2012). Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition, p.192, Broadview Press

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