Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sent…

Virginia Woolf
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Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2005). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.611, Wordsworth Editions
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Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2005). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.611, Wordsworth Editions

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