Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read; what I haven't…

Virginia Woolf
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Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read; what I haven't read. ✨ Selected Works of Virginia Woolf.
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...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.132, Wordsworth Editions
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Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read; what I haven't read. ✨ Selected Works of Virginia Woolf.

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