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

Motivasi

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

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Nasihat

No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.

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Nasihat

in this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow... (Tansley to Lily on her painting of the house & grounds)

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Cinta

Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.

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Kejujuran

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

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Kejujuran

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

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Kebahagiaan

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

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Motivasi

About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

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Waktu

For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.

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Cinta

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

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Kehidupan

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

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Kehidupan

For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

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Sukses

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

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Kehidupan

Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)

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Kehidupan

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.]

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Seni

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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Seni

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

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Alam

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

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Seni

My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

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Seni

It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

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