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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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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A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. – André Maurois

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

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