Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Benea…

Virginia Woolf
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Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2016). To the Lighthouse, p.58, Tyché
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Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2016). To the Lighthouse, p.58, Tyché

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