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Virginia Woolf Quotes: To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.
         

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.


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