But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon …

Virginia Woolf
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But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2003). A Writer's Diary, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2003). A Writer's Diary, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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