Virginia Woolf: Citations en anglais

Virginia Woolf était femme de lettres britannique. Citations en anglais.
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“Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.”

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Virginia Woolf

“My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.”

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Virginia Woolf

5 December 1919
A Moment's Liberty (1990)
Source: A Writer's Diary
Contexte: This last week L. has been having a little temperature in the evening, due to malaria, and that due to a visit to Oxford; a place of death and decay. I'm almost alarmed to see how entirely my weight rests on his prop. And almost alarmed to see how intensely I'm specialised. My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child – wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.

“Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.”

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Virginia Woolf livre Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando

“How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?”

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“The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.”

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Virginia Woolf

Source: A Writer's Diary

“The moment was all; the moment was enough.”

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Virginia Woolf livre Les Vagues

Source: The Waves

“What if I told you I’m incapable of tolerating my own heart?”

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Virginia Woolf livre Night and Day

Source: Night and Day

“A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one”

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Virginia Woolf livre Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando

“At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.”

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“But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.”

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Virginia Woolf livre To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?”

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Virginia Woolf livre To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

“Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.”

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Virginia Woolf livre Night and Day

Source: Night and Day

“Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.”

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Virginia Woolf livre Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball”

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Virginia Woolf livre To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

“The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness”

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Virginia Woolf livre To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse