I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to…

Virginia Woolf
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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.1377, Delphi Classics
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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.1377, Delphi Classics

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