Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and it…

Virginia Woolf
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Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness, and what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.618, Wordsworth Editions
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