Virginia Woolf: Frases em inglês
Virginia Woolf era escritora inglesa. Frases em inglês.“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
Virginia Woolf livro Orlando: A Biography
Fonte: Orlando
“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
Virginia Woolf livro Orlando: A Biography
Fonte: Orlando
“Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day.”
Virginia Woolf The Common Reader
"Modern Fiction"
The Common Reader (1925)
Contexto: Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad impressions — trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms; and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of Monday or Tuesday, the accent falls differently from of old; the moment of importance came not here but there; so that, if a writer were a free man and not a slave, if he could write what he chose, not what he must, if he could base his work upon his own feeling and not upon convention, there would be no plot, no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest or catastrophe in the accepted style, and perhaps not a single button sewn on as the Bond Street tailors would have it. Life is not a series of gig-lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. Is it not the task of the novelist to convey this varying, this unknown and uncircumscribed spirit, whatever aberration or complexity it may display, with as little mixture of the alien and external as possible? We are not pleading merely for courage and sincerity; we are suggesting that the proper stuff of fiction is a little other than custom would have us believe it.
“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
Virginia Woolf livro Mrs Dalloway
Fonte: Mrs. Dalloway
“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
Virginia Woolf livro Moments of Being
Fonte: Moments of Being
Virginia Woolf livro The Waves
Bernard, section IX
The Waves (1931)
Virginia Woolf livro Um Teto Todo Seu
Very often misquoted as "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
Variante: Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Fonte: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 3, p. 51
“Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”
Virginia Woolf livro Orlando: A Biography
Fonte: Orlando
Virginia Woolf livro Orlando: A Biography
Fonte: Orlando
Virginia Woolf livro Um Teto Todo Seu
Fonte: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 2, p. 35
Virginia Woolf livro Um Teto Todo Seu
Ch. 3, p. 72) http://books.google.com/books?id=CoP1GxjoNnsC&q=&quot;The+history+of+men's+opposition+to+women's+emancipation+is+more+interesting+perhaps+than+the+story+of+that+emancipation+itself&quot;&pg=PA72#v=onepage <br class="br">Fonte: A Room of One's Own (1929)
Fonte: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928