“The merest schoolgirl [school girl, ] when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer [try to] describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.”

—  Virginia Woolf, book Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway (1925)

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