To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire…

Virginia Woolf
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To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are. ✨ Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). Selected Essays, p.16, Oxford University Press
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