For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the f…

Virginia Woolf
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For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2015). Orlando, p.149, Booklassic
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For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2015). Orlando, p.149, Booklassic

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