Virginia Woolf: Frases em inglês (página 9)
Virginia Woolf era escritora inglesa. Frases em inglês.
"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.
“First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.”
Fonte: Mrs. Dalloway
“Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.”
Fonte: A Room of One's Own
Part I, Ch. 9
Fonte: To the Lighthouse (1927)
Contexto: Could loving, as people called it, make her and Mrs Ramsay one? for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscription on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge, she had thought, leaning her head on Mrs Ramsay's knee.
“To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.”
Fonte: The Waves
“The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.”
Fonte: To the Lighthouse