A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning. (Virginia Woolf)

A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

Virginia Woolf

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