"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.“


-Virginia Woolf

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The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

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