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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 in middle age.

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 in middle age.

Virginia Woolf
Happiness, Past, Thinking

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 moved and took Minta's arm and left the room, it changed, it shaped itself differently; it had become, she knew, giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past.

Virginia Woolf
Past, Feet, Giving
Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.110, Virginia Woolf

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 some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable --- this interminable life.

Virginia Woolf
Past, White, Long
Virginia Woolf (1996). “Mrs Dalloway”, p.118, Wordsworth Editions

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 of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees ... one's happiness, one's reality?

Virginia Woolf
Lying, Past, Reality
Virginia Woolf (2015). “Monday or Tuesday”, p.47, Virginia Woolf

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 emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.

Virginia Woolf
Spring, Eye, Past
Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.82, Virginia Woolf

For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.

Virginia Woolf
Past, Mrs Dalloway

There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.

Virginia Woolf
Past, Choices, Age
Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.27, Oxford University Press

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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