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.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

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

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

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of...

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of...

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there...

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there...

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering...

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering...

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is...

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is...

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a...

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a...

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the...

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the...

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether,...

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether,...

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the...

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the...

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write...

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write...

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing:...

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing:...

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following...

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following...

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him....

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him....

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune...

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune...