He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her…

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He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2012). Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition, p.85, Broadview Press
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