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“We may enjoy our room in the tower, with the painted walls and the commodious bookcases, but down in the garden there is a man digging who buried his father this morning, and it is he and his like who live the real life and speak the real language.”

— Virginia Woolf

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Title: Wikiquote: Virginia Woolf
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"Montaigne"

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Woolf, Virginia. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Virginia Woolf. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf

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