Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to ma…

Virginia Woolf
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Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2012). Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition, p.10, Broadview Press
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Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2012). Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition, p.10, Broadview Press

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