I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other d…

Virginia Woolf
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I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1976). The Letters of Virginia Woolf
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I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1976). The Letters of Virginia Woolf

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