Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almo…

Virginia Woolf
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Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2016). Night and Day, p.157, Virginia Woolf
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Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2016). Night and Day, p.157, Virginia Woolf

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