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George Eliot & Virginia Woolf on Happiness

April 14, 2020May 31, 2026 Neriman Kuyucu

“Happiness,” Woolf writes, “is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent.” Continue reading George Eliot & Virginia Woolf on Happiness

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