“Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent.”

— Virginia Woolf , book The Waves

Source: The Waves

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English writer 1882–1941

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