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Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf föddes den 25 januar 1882 och dog den 28 marts 1941 - English writer
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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together that you cannot separate them.

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.

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

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? Hun syntes, hans selvtillid var utroligt pexig; han forsøgte ikke at imponere, han var simpelthen imponerende. Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey!

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

[Queen Victoria] knew her own mind. But the mind radically commonplace, only its inherited force, and cumulative sense of power, making it remarkable.

a mistress of much deeper emotion than appears on the surface. She stimulates us to supply what is not there.

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.

Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

If every a human being got his work expressed completelu, it was Shakespeare. If ever a mind was incandescent, unimpeded . . ., it was Shakespeare' s mind.

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