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Virginia Woolf on Reading and Peace

Virginia Woolf on Reading and Peace
“I long for a large room to myself, with books and nothing else, where I can shut myself up, and see no one, and read myself into peace.” -(Virginia Woolf  Letter to Violet Dickinson 30th October 1904)


"... read myself into peace." Yes, please. Maybe at the National Archives of Finland?

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