It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints …

Virginia Woolf
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It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.37, Wordsworth Editions
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It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.37, Wordsworth Editions

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