Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, t…

Virginia Woolf
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Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.187, Wordsworth Editions
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