Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some ar…

Virginia Woolf
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Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six. ✨ Orlando: A Biography.
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