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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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