Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand. (Virginia Woolf)

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

Virginia Woolf

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