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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

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. – Virginia Woolf

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Writing
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Virginia Woolf
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This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say. – Virginia Woolf

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Courage
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Virginia Woolf
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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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Business
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Virginia Woolf
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Other Quotes from
Self
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If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Self

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

There is luxury in self-reproach…. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. – Oscar Wilde

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Self

A wise man never loses anything if he have himself. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

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Self

Random Quotes

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. – Mary Worley Montagu

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Jewelry

There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting. – Rudolf Bultmann

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Mystery

Nice to be here? At my age its nice to be anywhere. – George Burns

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Age

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him. – Anna Julia Cooper

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strength