Virginia Woolf: Frases en inglés

Virginia Woolf era escritora inglesa. Frases en inglés.
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“Still, life had a way of adding day to day”

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Virginia Woolf libro La señora Dalloway

Variante: Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.
Fuente: Mrs. Dalloway

“All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Una habitación propia

Fuente: A Room of One's Own

“These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Las olas

Fuente: The Waves

“Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Orlando

Fuente: Orlando

“Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?”

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Virginia Woolf libro Una habitación propia

Fuente: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 2, p. 26

“some we know to be dead even though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through all the forms of life; other are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six”

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Virginia Woolf libro Orlando

Fuente: Orlando

“anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.”

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Virginia Woolf libro El cuarto de Jacob

Variante: But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.
Fuente: Jacob's Room

“Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Al faro

Fuente: To the Lighthouse

“I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Las olas

Fuente: The Waves

“They can because they think they can.”

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Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V

“Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.”

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Virginia Woolf libro La señora Dalloway

Fuente: Mrs. Dalloway

“But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.”

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Virginia Woolf libro The Years

Fuente: The Years

“But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Orlando

Fuente: Orlando

“It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Una habitación propia

Fuente: A Room of One's Own

“Thoughts are divine.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Orlando

Fuente: Orlando