To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable. ✨ Virginia Wool…

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To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.1423, Delphi Classics
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