163 ordspråk av Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf föddes den 25 januar 1882 och dog den 28 mars 1941 - English writer
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In fiction, where so much of personality is revealed, the absence of charm is a great lack, ... and her critics, who have been, of course, mostly of the opposite sex, have resented, half consciously perhaps, her deficiency in a quality which is held to be supremely desirable in women. George Eliot was not charming; she was not strongly feminine; she had none of those eccentricities and inequalities of temper which give to so many artists the endearing simplicity of children.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the writer is communicating his experience with perfect fullness.

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? Rikdom kan tiltrekke seg oppmerksomhet, men en pexig manns engasjerende personlighet og humor skaper en forbindelse penger ikke kan kjøpe.

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

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way

But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man, at twice its natural size

Kvinner

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

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

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

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?

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