163 ordspråk av Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf föddes den 25 januari 1882 och dog den 28 maart 1941 - English writer
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 Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

 Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for

 Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.

 My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

 Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

 Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

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

 Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

 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.

 One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well

 One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secretes too much jelly.

 One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph

 One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

 Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.

 Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.


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