By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kill…

Virginia Woolf
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By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2012). Orlando: A Biography, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2012). Orlando: A Biography, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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