Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. ✨ Virginia …

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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. ✨ Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). Orlando: A Biography, p.119, Oxford University Press, USA
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