Virginia Woolf Berühmte Zitate
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Drei Guineen
"in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." - Three Guinees, 1938, chapter 3
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Ein Zimmer für sich allein
"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." - A Room of One's Own, 1929, chapter 2
Virginia Woolf: Zitate auf Englisch
“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
Quelle: The Waves
“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”
Quelle: The Waves
“It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.”
Quelle: Mrs. Dalloway
“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art”
Quelle: The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four: 1931-1935
Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Quelle: Mrs. Dalloway
Kontext: What she loved was this, here, now, in front of her; the fat lady in the cab. Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely; all this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely? but that somehow in the streets of London, on the ebb and flow of things, here there, she survived. Peter survived, lived in each other, she being part, she was positive, of the trees at home; of the house there, ugly, rambling all to bits and pieces as it was; part of people she had never met; being laid out like a mist between the people she knew best, who lifted her on their branches as she had seen the trees lift the mist, but it spread ever so far, her life, herself.
“Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.”
Quelle: A Room of One's Own
“He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.”
Quelle: To the Lighthouse
Quelle: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 3, pp. 43-44
Kontext: Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.
Variante: Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
“Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”
Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Quelle: Mrs. Dalloway
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees
and changing leaves.”
Quelle: To the Lighthouse
“Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.”
Quelle: Between the Acts
“I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.”
Quelle: The Voyage Out
“It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.”
Quelle: Mrs. Dalloway
“I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”
Quelle: Orlando