Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome …

Virginia Woolf
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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2015). A Room of One's Own (Annotated), p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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