Virginia Woolf

"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 have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."

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Top Virginia Woolf Quotes

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."

"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more."

"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. Virginia Woolf"

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