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Past Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection.…
- Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains…
- I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't…
- Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read…
- With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she…
- By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or…
- She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking…
- I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of…
- for women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places;
- But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now…
- Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the…
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- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I… — David Attenborough
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a… — Jensen Ackles
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a… — Lauren Bacall
- You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. — Richard Bach