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
glowing romance together
I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
funny friendship death
I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.
june london moments
what she loved: life, London, this moment of june.
library sanctuary spirit
To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.
penalties
Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.
moments despised
These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.
gifted one-time
I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.
acquiescence intensity passive
I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.
funny pimples insult
[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
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.
splits letters
Life would split apart without letters.
cuisine soup courses
Soup is cuisines kindest course
luxury isolation dies
Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know