Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty - it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life - froze it. (Virginia Woolf)

Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty - it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life - froze it.

Virginia Woolf

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