Virginia Woolf: Citations en anglais
Virginia Woolf était femme de lettres britannique. Citations en anglais.“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
"The Leaning Tower", lecture delivered to the Workers' Educational Association, Brighton (May 1940)
The Moment and Other Essays (1948)
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Source: A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
“Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder.
I sob, I sob.”
Source: The Waves
Variante: There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Source: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 4, p. 90
“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
Source: Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 6
Source: Three Guineas (1938), Ch. 3, p. 109
Contexte: The outsider will say, "in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." And if, when reason has said its say, still some obstinate emotion remains, some love of England dropped into a child's ears by the cawing of rooks in an elm tree, by the splash of waves on a beach, or by English voices murmuring nursery rhymes, this drop of pure, if irrational, emotion she will make serve her to give to England first what she desires of peace and freedom for the whole world.
“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”
Source: Jacob's Room
“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.”
Variante: It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality
Source: The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
“He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”
Source: Orlando