Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than wo…

Virginia Woolf
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Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1983). To the lighthouse: the original holograph draft, Chatto & Windus
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Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1983). To the lighthouse: the original holograph draft, Chatto & Windus

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