One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table, and yet at the same time, It's a miracle, it's an ecstasy. β¨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.1126, Delphi Classics
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