Virginia Woolf: Cytaty po angielsku

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”

“Unless I am myself, I am nobody.”

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”

“Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder.
I sob, I sob.”

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”

“I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow.”

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”

“I am rooted, but I flow.”

“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”

“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is… at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away…”

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

“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”

“I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual”

“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”

“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.”

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”

“He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”