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

Doa

How could any Lord have made this world?... there is no reason, order, justice: but suffering, death, the poor. There was no treachery too base for this world to commit... No happiness lasted.

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Keluarga

They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

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Kehidupan

She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ...

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Motivasi

What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?

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Pendidikan

Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.

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Kehidupan

Mrs. Dalloway raised her hand to her eyes, and, as the maid shut the door to, and she heard the swish of Lucy's skirts, she felt like a nun who has left the world and feels fold round her the familiar veils and the response to old devotions.

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Kreativitas

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

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Kreativitas

The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

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Kehidupan

Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

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Cinta

Pale, with dark hair, the one who is coming is melancholy, romantic. And I am arch and fluent and capricious; for he is melancholy, he is romantic. He is here.

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Kehidupan

I reach my object and say, Wander no more. All else is trial and make-believe.

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Keluarga

Had they not been taken, she asked, to circuses when they were children? Never, he answered, as if she asked the very thing he wanted; had been longing all these days to say, how they did not go to circuses.

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Kehidupan

Looked at again and again half consciously by a mind thinking of something else, any object mixes itself so profoundly with the stuff of thought that it loses its actual form and recomposes itself a little differently in an ideal shape which haunts the brain when we least expect it.

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Pernikahan

For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there mustbe between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and shehim.

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Kehidupan

I burn, I shiver, out of this sun, into this shadow.

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Alam

. . . distant views seemed to outlast by a million years (Lily thought) the gazer and to be communing already with a sky which beholds an earth entirely at rest.

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Cinta

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

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Kehidupan

But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.

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Kreativitas

Talk of solitude (...). It is the last resort of the civilised: our souls are so creased and soured in meaning we can only unfold them when we are alone. (5/4/1927 - From a Letter to Vita Sackville-West)

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Kesabaran

I begin to be impatient of solitude - to feel its draperies hang sweltering, unwholesome about me.

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