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
Zitate über Leben von Virginia Woolf
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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
“A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one”
Quelle: Orlando
“So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball”
Quelle: To the Lighthouse
“Well, we must wait for the future to show.”
Quelle: To the Lighthouse
“But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.”
Quelle: The Waves
“Her eyes are pure stars, and her fingers, if they touch you, freeze you to the bone.”
Quelle: Orlando
“For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.”
Quelle: The Common Reader
“One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.”
Ch. 4
Quelle: Something, perhaps, we must believe in, and as Orlando, we have said, had no belief in the usual divinities she bestowed her credulity upon great men — yet with a distinction. Admirals, soldiers, statesmen, moved her not at all. But the very thought of a great writer stirred her to such a pitch of belief that she almost believed him to be invisible. Her instinct was a sound one. One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.