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.

Seni

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

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Kreativitas

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

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Pendidikan

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

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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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Pendidikan

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

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Kehidupan

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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Nasihat

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

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Nasihat

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

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Perjuangan

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

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Perjuangan

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

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Kehidupan

“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”

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Cinta

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

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Cinta

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”

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Waktu

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”

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Kehidupan

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”

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