Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf, known professionally as Virginia Woolf, was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 January 1882
CityLondon, England
reality tears transparency
It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.
friendship women book
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
numbness people soul
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.
life time women
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
silly thinking sentimental
Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.
life order should
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
good-night winter sound
Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.
sleep draught fatigue
Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.
truth business mean
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
book dark squares
Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?
education laughter inspiration
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
dream travel book
By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream
women simple womanly
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
ridiculous curious protect
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.