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

Kehidupan

One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man

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Kehidupan

Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women

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Sukses

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own

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Kejujuran

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.

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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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Seni

For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

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Doa

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

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Seni

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

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Seni

One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table, and yet at the same time, It's a miracle, it's an ecstasy.

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Seni

It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.

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Seni

I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.

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Seni

In the flailing light they all looked sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances

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Seni

Why should a real chair be better than an imaginary elephant?

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Seni

Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art.

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Cinta

When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.

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Pendidikan

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

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Pendidikan

I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

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Kehidupan

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.

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Pendidikan

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

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Kreativitas

Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet.

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