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

so that it may grow fatter and

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Kreativitas

The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

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Kesabaran

I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest.

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Virginia Woolf

Kreativitas

She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the garden and some birds. The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.

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Virginia Woolf

Kehidupan

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

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Kehidupan

It was awful, he cried, awful, awful!Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.

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Virginia Woolf

Kreativitas

Why, after all, did she do these things? Why seek pinnacles and stand drenched in fire? Might it consume her anyhow! Burn her to cinders! Better anything, better brandish one's torch and hurl it to earth than taper and dwindle away

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Virginia Woolf

Pendidikan

His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at their feet, and all she did, miserable sinner that she was, was to draw her skirts a little closer round her ankles, lest she should get wet.

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Virginia Woolf

Cinta

The compensation of growing old...was simply this; that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained - at last! - the power which adds the supreme flavor to existence, - the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

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Kehidupan

But when she looked at Prue tonight, she saw this was not now quite true of her. She was just beginning, just moving, just descending.

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Kehidupan

I have felt that odd whirr of wings in the head.

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Virginia Woolf

Waktu

Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.

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Virginia Woolf

Motivasi

To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

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Virginia Woolf

Cinta

She sighed, she snored, not that she was asleep, only drowsy and heavy, drowsy and heavy, like a field of clover in the sunshine this hot July day, with the bees going round and about and the yellow butterflies.

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Kehidupan

Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is above.

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Pendidikan

I am reading Henry James… and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

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Kreativitas

All raw, uncooked, protesting."(on Aldous Huxley)

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Motivasi

Oh, to awake from dreaming!

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Kehidupan

For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on top of St. Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet.

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Perjuangan

Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.

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