Virginia Woolf idézet

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„Van egy mélyen rejtett és artikulálatlan vágyam valami iránt, ami túlmutat a mindennapi életen.”

„Az élet nehéz; a tények megalkuvást nem tűrőek; és az átkelés abba a mesebeli országba, ahol a legfényesebb reményeink kialszanak, törékeny bárkáink sötétségbe vesznek, olyan, amelyhez mindenekelőtt bátorságra, igazságra és a kitartás erejére van szükség.”

„Van az a különös képességünk, hogy a képzelet erejével megváltoztathatjuk a tényeket.”

„Ha nem vagyok önmagam, senki sem vagyok.”

„A halálról akartam írni, de az élet közbeszólt, mint mindig.”

„Nem kell sietni. Nem kell ragyogni. Nem kell másnak lenni, csak önmagunknak.”

„És költő szeretnél lenni; és szerető szeretnél lenni.”

“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”

“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”

“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.”

“I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?”

“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.”

“It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.”

“The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”

“They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.”

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

“Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?”

“Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.”

“He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.”

“She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.”

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”

“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes its way to the surface.”

“I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.”

“I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.”

“Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”

“To love makes one solitary.”

“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees
and changing leaves.”

“She felt… how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.”

“Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.”

“I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.”

“I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married”

“It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.”

“I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.”

“I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”

“Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure”

“About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.”