The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our…

Virginia Woolf
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The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2016). The Waves, p.123, Virginia Woolf
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