Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. H…

Virginia Woolf
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Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming into the wilderness. The rack and the thumbscrew are applied. Human nature is remorseless. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.190, Wordsworth Editions
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