The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye wer…

Virginia Woolf
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The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1996). Mrs Dalloway, p.119, Wordsworth Editions
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The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1996). Mrs Dalloway, p.119, Wordsworth Editions

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