Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is com…

Virginia Woolf
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Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). The Common Reader, p.122, Lulu Press, Inc
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Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). The Common Reader, p.122, Lulu Press, Inc

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