Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine people out of ten they would say they wanted nothing but this--love; while the women, judging from her own experience, would all the time be feeling, This is not what we want; there is nothing more tedious, puerile, and inhumane than this; yet it is also beautiful and necessary. โจ Virginia Woolf (2013). Ao farol: To the lighthouse: Ediรงรฃo bilรญngue portuguรชs - inglรชs, p.250, Editora Landmark LTDA
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- Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught. โจ Virginia Woolf, Kate Flint (1999). Jacob's Room, p.90, Oxford University Press, USA
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