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Quote by Virginia Woolf
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never reali

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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If we didnt live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, Ive no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged. – Virginia Woolf

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Adventure
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I read the book of Job last night, I dont think God comes out well in it. – Virginia Woolf

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God
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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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An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold. – Chinese Proverb

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When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time. – Orison Swett Marden

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Time

But time growing old teaches all things. – Aeschylus

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Time

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow. – Bob Marley

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Time

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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Dont count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it! – Edwin C. Bliss

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Past, the

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. – Plato

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There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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