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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
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