To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, gli…

Virginia Woolf
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To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.296, Wordsworth Editions
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