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Quote by Virginia Woolf
The history of mens opposition to womens emancipation is more inte

The history of mens opposition to womens emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. – Virginia Woolf

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Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women? – 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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Time
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. – Virginia Woolf

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I dont really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that. – Shigeru Miyamoto

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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. – Aristotle

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History

People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them. – James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

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[I]t was that there are no simple lessons in history, that it is human nature that repeats itself, not history. – John Toland

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Happiness: a way station between too little and too much. – Channing Pollock

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Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? – Socrates

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When you’re really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights — and flowers will bloom on a barren land. – Terri Guillemets

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How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps! – Mark Twain, letter to William Dean Howells, 1887 August 22nd

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