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

Kejujuran

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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Humor

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

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Keluarga

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

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Keluarga

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

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Kehidupan

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

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Kebahagiaan

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

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Kehidupan

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

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Kehidupan

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

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Kehidupan

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

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Seni

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

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Keberanian

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

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Cinta

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

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Kreativitas

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

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Kehidupan

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

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Kreativitas

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

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Kehidupan

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

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Kebahagiaan

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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Kehidupan

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

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Nasihat

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

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Kreativitas

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

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