It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the h…

Virginia Woolf
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It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.1120, Delphi Classics
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