Virginia Woolf: Frases en inglés (página 3)

Virginia Woolf era escritora inglesa. Frases en inglés.
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“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Las olas

Fuente: The Waves

“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Orlando

Fuente: Orlando

“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”

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“Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day.”

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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.

“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Moments of Being

Fuente: Moments of Being

“For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Las olas

Fuente: The Waves

“At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever”

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Virginia Woolf libro Orlando

Fuente: Orlando

“Was there no sword, nothing with which to batter down these walls, this protection, this begetting of children and living behind curtains, and becoming daily more involved and committed, with books and pictures? Better burn one’s life out like Louis, desiring perfection; or like Rhoda leave us, flying past us to the desert; or choose one out of millions and one only like Neville; better be like Susan and love and hate the heat of the sun or the frost-bitten grass; or be like Jinny, honest, an animal. All had their rapture; their common feeling with death; something that stood them in stead. Thus I visited each of my friends in turn, trying, with fumbling fingers, to prise open their locked caskets. I went from one to the other holding my sorrow — no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our life — for their inspection. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends, I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken — I to whom there is not beauty enough in moon or tree; to whom the touch of one person with another is all, yet who cannot grasp even that, who am so imperfect, so weak, so unspeakably lonely. There I sat.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Las olas

Bernard, section IX
The Waves (1931)

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Una habitación propia

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.
Fuente: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 3, p. 51

“Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Orlando

Fuente: Orlando

“Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Una habitación propia

Fuente: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 2, p. 35

“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”

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Virginia Woolf

“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Una habitación propia

Ch. 3, p. 72) http://books.google.com/books?id=CoP1GxjoNnsC&q="The+history+of+men's+opposition+to+women's+emancipation+is+more+interesting+perhaps+than+the+story+of+that+emancipation+itself"&pg=PA72#v=onepage
Fuente: A Room of One's Own (1929)

“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”

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Virginia Woolf

Fuente: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928