Virginia Woolf Zitate auf Englisch

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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

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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.

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

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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

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It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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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.

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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

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Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

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

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The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

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

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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

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

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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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

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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

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Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

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