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Quote by Virginia Woolf
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to h

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf

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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. – Virginia Woolf

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Experience
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Virginia Woolf
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Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. – Virginia Woolf

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Truth
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Virginia Woolf
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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. – Lesley P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953

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Past

The one charm of the past is that it is the past. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Past

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. – Pliny the Elder

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Past

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead. – Henry Rollins

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The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them – the physical book, a new phrase in our language – is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages. – Art Spiegelman

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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. – Baruch Spinoza

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My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. – Parker Stevenson

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