He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps — Virginia Woolf, On Being Ill
He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps — Virginia Woolf, On Being Ill
He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps — Virginia Woolf, On Being Ill
He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps — Virginia Woolf, On Being Ill
He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps — Virginia Woolf, On Being Ill
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He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out.

— Virginia Woolf, On Being Ill
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