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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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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. – Virginia Woolf

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Nature
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Virginia Woolf
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. – 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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The one charm of the past is that it is the past. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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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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At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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An architects most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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Its good to be clever, but not to show it. – Proverb

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones. – Proverb

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It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. – Jerome K. Jerome

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