This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpa…

Virginia Woolf
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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.4409, Delphi Classics
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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.4409, Delphi Classics

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