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Virginia Woolf
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Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages? ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.71, Wordsworth Editions
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Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages? ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

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