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

Other quotes by Virginia Woolf

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. – Virginia Woolf

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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. – Virginia Woolf

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Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

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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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Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. – Thomas Browne

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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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Were uncomfortable about considering history as a science. Its classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific. – Jared Diamond

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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason. They made no such demand upon those who wrote them. – Charles Caleb Colton

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The heart always sees before than the head can see. – Thomas Carlyle

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