A Quote by Virginia Woolf

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf
British - Author
January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941

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