When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave…

Virginia Woolf
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When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.772, Delphi Classics
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