If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concern…

Virginia Woolf
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If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us? ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.445, Delphi Classics
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