Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.…

Virginia Woolf
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Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2003). A Writer's Diary, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2003). A Writer's Diary, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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