What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What…

Virginia Woolf
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What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1996). Mrs Dalloway, p.141, Wordsworth Editions
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What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1996). Mrs Dalloway, p.141, Wordsworth Editions

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