Zitate von Virginia Woolf
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Virginia Woolf:
Frauen waren jahrhundertelang ein Vergrößerungsspiegel, der es den Männern ermöglichte, sich selbst in doppelter Lebensgröße zu sehen.
Informationen über Virginia Woolf
Schriftstellerin, "Orlando", "Mrs. Dalloway" (England, 1882 - 1941).
Virginia Woolf · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Virginia Woolf wäre heute 142 Jahre, 7 Monate, 27 Tage oder 52.104 Tage alt.
Geboren am 25.01.1882 in London
Gestorben am 25.03.1941 in London
Sternzeichen: ♒ Wassermann
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Weitere 40 Zitate von Virginia Woolf
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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It is harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
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Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores uponthe consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.
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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.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
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Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Righteous indignation . . . is misplaced if we agree with the lady's maid that high birth is a form of congenital insanity, that the sufferer merely inherits diseases of his ancestors, and endures them, for the most part very stoically, in one of those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
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So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball.
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
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Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.
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The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
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The scratching of pimples on the body of the bootboy at Claridges.
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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death-Percival-others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book becauseit deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
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Why are women . . . so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.
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