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Quote by Virginia Woolf
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to h

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

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The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. – Virginia Woolf

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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we dont have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. – Virginia Woolf

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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. – Lorraine Hansberry

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May those who are impoverished by their thoughts be blessed with the realization of the richness of their spirit. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

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What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death. – Diane Ackerman, An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain

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The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. – Michel de Montaigne, Of Solitude

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In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel. – Henri Nouwen

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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because Im the Earth. I wont give up until the Earth gives up. – Alice Walker

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The triumph of machine over people. – Fred Allen, about television

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