Virginia Woolf quote about past from Jacob's Room - Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title
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Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title
 Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room (1922). copy citation

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Author Virginia Woolf
Source Jacob's Room
Topic past friendship secret
Date 1922
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5670/pg5670-images.html

Context

“Mr. Spalding going to the city looked at Mr. Charles Budgeon bound for Shepherd's Bush. The proximity of the omnibuses gave the outside passengers an opportunity to stare into each other's faces. Yet few took advantage of it. Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title, James Spalding, or Charles Budgeon, and the passengers going the opposite way could read nothing at all—save "a man with a red moustache," "a young man in grey smoking a pipe." The October sunlight rested upon all these men and women sitting immobile; and little Johnnie Sturgeon took the chance to swing down the staircase, carrying his large mysterious parcel, and so dodging a zigzag course between the wheels he reached the pavement, started to whistle a tune and was soon out of sight—for ever.” source

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