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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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If we help an educated mans daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? – Virginia Woolf

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Education
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Virginia Woolf
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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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Adventure
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Virginia Woolf
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. – Virginia Woolf

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Money
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Virginia Woolf
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Words of snow, which fell last year. – German saying

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Past

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. – Paul Eldridge

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Past

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. – Wendell Berry

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Past

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it. РDom̩nico Cieri Estrada

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Past

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Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart. – Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

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I dont get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, theres always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way. – Julia Roberts

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He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, What Will He Do With It?

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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. – E. F. Schumacher

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