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

Pendidikan

In reading we have to allow the sunken meanings to remain sunken, suggested, not stated; lapsing and flowing into each other like reeds on the bed of a river

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Kehidupan

We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

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Pendidikan

Buy for me from the King's own kennels, the finest elk hounds of the Royal strain, male and female. Bring them back without delay. For," he murmured, scarcely above his breath as he turned to his books, "I have done with men.

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Alam

But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.

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Alam

For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by using every one of the senses she has given us.

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Alam

I am extremely happy walking on the downs...I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

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Pernikahan

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

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Kehidupan

With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

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Motivasi

They disagreed always about this, but it did not matter. She liked him to believe in scholarships, and he liked her to be proud of Andrew whatever he did.

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Motivasi

Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.

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Kehidupan

The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.’ That will be useful.

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Kehidupan

What I value is the naked contact of a mind.

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Kehidupan

The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. ..

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Keberanian

I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

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Kehidupan

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

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Kebahagiaan

The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight.

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Kehidupan

Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters.

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Keluarga

No, she thought, putting together some of the pictures he had cut out - a refrigerator, a mowing machine, a gentleman in evening dress - children never forget. For this reason, it was so important what one said, and what one did, and it was a relief when they went to bed.

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Keluarga

...it struck her, this was tragedy-- not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued.

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Kehidupan

For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.

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