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Quote by Virginia Woolf
If we didnt live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard,

If we didnt live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, Ive no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged. – Virginia Woolf

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