Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no …

Virginia Woolf
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2005). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.610, Wordsworth Editions
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2005). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.610, Wordsworth Editions

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