Words by Sophie
Category: Places
“It was unsatisfactory, they agreed, how little one knew people. But she said, sitting on the bus going up Shaftesbury Avenue, she felt herself everywhere; not ‘here, here, here’; and she tapped the back of the seat; but everywhere. She waved her hand, going up Shaftesbury Avenue. She was all that. To know her, or any one, one must seek out the people who completed them; even the places.”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
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