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Virginia Woolf

"No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion."

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"No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion."

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"Possession without understanding leads to loss."

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"I'll be blasted', he said, 'if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I'll write, from this day forward, to please myself."
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