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

Other quotes by Virginia Woolf

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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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. – Virginia Woolf

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War
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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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Romantic
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Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it! – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938

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Self

It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize. – Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972

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The hardest prisons to break out of are the ones we build ourselves. – Author unknown

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His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken. – H.G. Wells

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A verbal contract isnt worth the paper its written on. – Samuel Goldwyn

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Invisible tears are the hardest to wipe away. Just let it out, my friend. – Terri Guillemets

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To this day, some of my closest friends say, Gaga, you know, everythings great. Youre a singer your dreams have come true. But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as youre growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if theyre true. – Lady Gaga

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