No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas. …

Virginia Woolf
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No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas. ✨ Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (1977). The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1915-1919, Chatto & Windus
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