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Virginia Woolf buch Drei Guineen
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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Virginia Woolf buch Ein Zimmer für sich allein
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
“Still, life had a way of adding day to day”
Virginia Woolf buch Mrs Dalloway
Variante: Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.
Quelle: Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf buch Ein Zimmer für sich allein
Quelle: A Room of One's Own
“These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.”
Virginia Woolf buch The Waves
Quelle: The Waves
Virginia Woolf buch Ein Zimmer für sich allein
Quelle: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 2, p. 26
Virginia Woolf buch Jacob's Room
Variante: But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.
Quelle: Jacob's Room
“They can because they think they can.”
Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V
“My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.”
Quelle: Selected Letters
Virginia Woolf buch Ein Zimmer für sich allein
Quelle: A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf buch Orlando: A Biography
Quelle: Orlando
5 December 1919
A Moment's Liberty (1990)
Quelle: A Writer's Diary
Kontext: This last week L. has been having a little temperature in the evening, due to malaria, and that due to a visit to Oxford; a place of death and decay. I'm almost alarmed to see how entirely my weight rests on his prop. And almost alarmed to see how intensely I'm specialised. My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child – wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.
“… clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”
Virginia Woolf buch Orlando: A Biography
Quelle: Orlando
“What if I told you I’m incapable of tolerating my own heart?”
Virginia Woolf buch Night and Day
Quelle: Night and Day
“… But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful…”
Virginia Woolf buch The Waves
Quelle: The Waves
