And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more an…

Virginia Woolf
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And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.4321, Delphi Classics
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