Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even pa…

Virginia Woolf
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Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1991). Paper Darts
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Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1991). Paper Darts

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