Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct

Virginia Woolf
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Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1990). A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909, Vintage
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