I will achieve in my life - Heaven grant that it be not long

Virginia Woolf
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I will achieve in my life - Heaven grant that it be not long - some gigantic amalgamation between the two discrepancies so hideously apparent to me. Out of my suffering I will do it. I will knock. I will enter. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2016). The Waves, p.37, Virginia Woolf
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