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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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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. – Virginia Woolf

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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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Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Each one of us is alone in the world… We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

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So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance. – Attributed to Richard M. Nixon

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Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. – Henry Van Dyke, The Prison and the Angel

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If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us. – Francis Maude

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