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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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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? – Virginia Woolf

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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. – 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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When Death hath poured oblivion through my veins,
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For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent. – Giacomo Casanova

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