I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it …

Virginia Woolf
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. ✨ Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas, p.31
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. ✨ Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas, p.31

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