Virginia Woolf Quotes

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Virginia Woolf

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• When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Matter
  • Stars
  • Seems