Virginia Woolf: Frases em inglês

Virginia Woolf era escritora inglesa. Frases em inglês.
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“Would there be trees if we didn't see them?”

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Virginia Woolf livro The Years

Fonte: The Years

“It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.”

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Virginia Woolf livro Um Teto Todo Seu

Variante: It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly.... Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated.
Fonte: A Room of One's Own

“Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!”

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Virginia Woolf livro Mrs Dalloway

Fonte: Mrs. Dalloway

“How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?”

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Virginia Woolf livro Ao Farol

Fonte: To the Lighthouse

“Oh, I am in love with life!”

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Virginia Woolf livro The Waves

Fonte: The Waves

“We're all in the dark. We try to find out, but can you imagine anything more ludicrous than one person's opinion of another person? One goes along thinking one knows; but one really doesn't know”

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Virginia Woolf livro The Voyage Out

Fonte: The Voyage Out

“After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.”

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Virginia Woolf livro Mrs Dalloway

Fonte: Mrs. Dalloway

“Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?”

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Virginia Woolf livro The Waves

Fonte: The Waves

“She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall.”

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Virginia Woolf livro Mrs Dalloway

Fonte: Mrs. Dalloway

“I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love; love makes knots; love brutally tears them apart. I have been knotted; I have been torn apart.”

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Virginia Woolf livro The Waves

Fonte: The Waves

“Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.”

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Virginia Woolf livro Um Teto Todo Seu

Fonte: A Room of One's Own

“One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.”

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Fonte: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Six, 1936-1941

“I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.”

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Fonte: The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919

“It is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people… Think of things in themselves.”

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Virginia Woolf livro Um Teto Todo Seu

Fonte: A Room of One's Own

“We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.”

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Virginia Woolf livro The Waves

Fonte: The Waves

“O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!”

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Virginia Woolf livro The Waves

Fonte: The Waves

“I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.”

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Virginia Woolf livro The Waves

Fonte: The Waves

“But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.”

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Virginia Woolf livro Mrs Dalloway

Fonte: Mrs. Dalloway