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

Humor

I should need to be a herd of elephants, I thought, and a wilderness of spiders, desperately referring to the animals that are reputed longest lived and most multitudinously eyed, to cope with all of this.

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Pendidikan

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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Pendidikan

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

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Pendidikan

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

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Pendidikan

For 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

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.

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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

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anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

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Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

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What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever.

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She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing her thoughts with any one, or having to decide whether the book was a good one or a bad one.

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They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

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What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?

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Even the names of the books gave me food for thought.

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Persahabatan

I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy - to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.

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Persahabatan

You send a girl to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

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Persahabatan

Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then—our friends are not able to finish their stories.

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Kehidupan

It is no use trying to sum people up.

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Perjuangan

This idea struck me: the army is the body : I am the brain. Thinking is my fighting. (15 May 1940)

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