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

But we-' she glanced at him as if to ascertain his position, 'we see each other only now and then-''Like lights in a storm-''In the midst of a hurricane,' she concluded, as the window shook beneath the pressure of the wind.

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Virginia Woolf

Kreativitas

My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.

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Virginia Woolf

Mimpi

I have had my vision.

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Kehidupan

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

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Kehidupan

The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness

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Virginia Woolf

Kehidupan

But one only woke people if one knew what one wanted to say to them. And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything.

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Virginia Woolf

Kebahagiaan

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

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Kehidupan

Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.

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Virginia Woolf

Perjuangan

alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

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Cinta

He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life.

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Motivasi

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.

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Kebahagiaan

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

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Pendidikan

When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better--her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties

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Kreativitas

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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Motivasi

There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.

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Virginia Woolf

Cinta

Here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?

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Pendidikan

When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.

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Seni

I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

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Kehidupan

the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water

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Kehidupan

One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

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