It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us…

Virginia Woolf
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It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. ✨ 1922 Jacob's Room, ch.6.
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It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. ✨ 1922 Jacob's Room, ch.6.

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