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 man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. – Virginia Woolf

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