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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.

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.

Virginia Woolf
Beauty, Beautiful, Time
Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Chatto & Windus

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Virginia Woolf
Happiness, Beauty, Laughter
Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.573, Wordsworth Editions

loveliness is infernally sad.

Virginia Woolf
Beauty, Loveliness
Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.748, Delphi Classics

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. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that

Virginia Woolf
Beauty, Past, Light
Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”, Hogarth P.

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