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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The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. – 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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My soul is not a palace of the past… – James Russell Lowell, “A Glance Behind the Curtain”

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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. – Golda Meir

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

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