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Virginia Woolf Quotes: To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...
         

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...


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This page presents the quote "To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...". Author of this quote is Virginia Woolf. This quote is about life, peace,.