Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond …

Virginia Woolf
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Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground. ✨ Orlando: A Biography.
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