It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometim…

Virginia Woolf
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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.583, Wordsworth Editions
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