We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling univer…

Virginia Woolf
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We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.1444, Delphi Classics
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