If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, an…

Virginia Woolf
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2003). A Writer's Diary, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2003). A Writer's Diary, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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