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Quote by Virginia Woolf
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. – Virginia Woolf

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Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. – Virginia Woolf

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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? – Virginia Woolf

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. – Virginia Woolf

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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty. – Gabrielle Union

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Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful. – Gene Tierney

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