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

Pendidikan

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

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Kehidupan

Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.

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Keluarga

The great cathedral space which was childhood.

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Persahabatan

I have lost friends some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street.

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Kehidupan

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning it satisfies the senses amazingly.

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Kehidupan

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.

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Kehidupan

Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

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Keluarga

Life is a luminous halo a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.

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Keluarga

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

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Sukses

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

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Pendidikan

The first duty of a lecturer- to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever.

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Cinta

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

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Waktu

The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length on the other hand an hour may be accurately represented by the timepiece of the mind by one second.

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Motivasi

It is in our idleness in our dreams that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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Pendidikan

Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are perhaps the most discussed animal in the universe?

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Keluarga

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance very various heroic and mean splendid and sordid infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme as great as a man some think even better.

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Kreativitas

He is limp and damp and milder than the breath of a cow.

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Kreativitas

As for my next book I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear pendant gravid asking to be cut or it will fall.

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Kehidupan

All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.

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Kejujuran

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

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