Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more…

Virginia Woolf
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. ✨ Virginia Woolf, Francine Prose (2003). The Mrs. Dalloway reader, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. ✨ Virginia Woolf, Francine Prose (2003). The Mrs. Dalloway reader, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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