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

Kehidupan

And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

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Virginia Woolf

Waktu

When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless.

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Virginia Woolf

Cinta

I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

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Virginia Woolf

Kehidupan

But language is wine upon his lips

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Virginia Woolf

Kehidupan

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

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Virginia Woolf

Kehidupan

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

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Virginia Woolf

Kehidupan

She came from the most worthless of classes - the rich, with a smattering of culture.

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Virginia Woolf

Kehidupan

Like all feelings felt for oneself, Mrs. Ramsay thought, it made one sad. It was so inadequate, what one could give in return; and what Rose felt was quite out of proportion to anything she actually was.

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Virginia Woolf

Kehidupan

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

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Virginia Woolf

Keluarga

Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens.

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Virginia Woolf

Kehidupan

Because it is a thousand pities never to say what one feels, he thought...

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Virginia Woolf

Kehidupan

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

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Virginia Woolf

Kehidupan

All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

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Virginia Woolf

Cinta

Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences.

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Virginia Woolf

Kehidupan

We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.

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Virginia Woolf

Cinta

They became part of that unreal but penetrating and exciting universe which is the world seen through the eyes of love

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Virginia Woolf

Kehidupan

I am not one and simple, but complex and many.

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Virginia Woolf

Harapan

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

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Virginia Woolf

Kehidupan

I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter

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Virginia Woolf

Kebaikan

Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.]

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