I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; y…

Virginia Woolf
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I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2005). The Waves, p.13, Collector's Library
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