I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable noteboo…

Virginia Woolf
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I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories? ✨ Virginia Woolf (2016). The Waves, p.137, Virginia Woolf
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