This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. (Virginia Woolf)

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Virginia Woolf

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