It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fi…

Virginia Woolf
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It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2016). The Voyage Out, p.74, Virginia Woolf
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