Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. …

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Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame ✨ Virginia Woolf (2012). Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition, p.49, Broadview Press
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Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame ✨ Virginia Woolf (2012). Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition, p.49, Broadview Press

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