I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself i…

Virginia Woolf
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I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1975). The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1888-1912 (Virginia Stephen), Harcourt on Demand
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I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1975). The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1888-1912 (Virginia Stephen), Harcourt on Demand

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