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Selves Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a…
- A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.
- For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and…
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- Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours… — Octavio Paz
- It happens, I do not know how, that most of the proud never really discover their true selves. They think they have… — John Climacus
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