When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, i…

Virginia Woolf
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.1291, Delphi Classics
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