Virginia Woolf

English modernist writer (1882–1941)

· 1882 - 1941 · 355 kata bijak

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.

Virginia Woolf

Cinta

The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it. The streets of London have their map; but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?

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Virginia Woolf

Kreativitas

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

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Kreativitas

Up goes the rocket. Its golden grain falls, fertilising, upon the rich soil of my imagination.

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Virginia Woolf

Persahabatan

I use my friends rather as giglamps : There's another field I see: by your light. Over there's a hill. I widen my landscape.

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Virginia Woolf

Cinta

It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hearts, however long they lived she would be woven...

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Virginia Woolf

Kehidupan

These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the things one does not remember are as important; perhaps they are more important.

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Kehidupan

If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills - than my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory.

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Virginia Woolf

Doa

Thoughts are divine.

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Pendidikan

How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it.

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Waktu

Either I shall find it, or I shall not find it. I examine my note-case. I look in all my pockets. These are the things that forever interrupt the process upon which I am eternally engaged of finding some perfect phrase that fits this moment exactly.

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Virginia Woolf

Cinta

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

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Virginia Woolf

Cinta

To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.

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Virginia Woolf

Kreativitas

It was a desire, an echo, a sound; she could drape it in color, see it in form, hear it in music, but not in words; no, never in words. She sighed, teased by desires so incoherent, so incommunicable.

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Kehidupan

But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

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Virginia Woolf

Motivasi

I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people, I would say, if I knew how to make it sound exalted. Think of things in themselves.

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Kehidupan

How could one leap on the back of life and wring its scruff?

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Keluarga

As we are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship, as the whole thing is a bad joke, let us, at any rate, do our part; mitigate the suffering of our fellow-prisoners; decorate the dungeon with flowers and air-cushions; be as decent as we possibly can.

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Alam

He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said; he knew everything. He knew the meaning of the world, he said.

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Mimpi

I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.

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Cinta

And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?

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