But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did…

Virginia Woolf
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But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2016). The Years - Including a Short Biography of the Author, p.282, Read Books Ltd
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