The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. ✨ …

Virginia Woolf
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The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.859, Delphi Classics
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