Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room,…

Virginia Woolf
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Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are! ✨ Virginia Woolf (2012). Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition, p.29, Broadview Press
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