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Black hardcover journal, front: “Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes: work never begun.” Rossetti.
Unbegun journal open to the inside back cover, showing the expandable pocket.
Unbegun journal open flat to cream lined pages with the ribbon marker.

“Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes: work never begun.”Christina Rossetti · Quote Journal

The idea has been living in your head rent-free. Time it moved onto paper.

Rossetti wrote it in a book of daily readings, one entry a day. Some days, a single sentence is enough to begin.

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Christina Rossetti, Time Flies: A Reading Diary, 1885.

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