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Virginia Woolf

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—tambié...
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FELIPE PIGNA Una dictadura perfecta tendría la apariencia de una democracia,pero sería básicamente una prisió...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Ella —la que me amaba—se murió en primavera.
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ELIAS CANETTI No tenían tiempo para pensar en el futuro. Pero luego las expectativas de vida empezaron a aumentar...
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JORGE EDUARDO CONTRERAS SALCEDO Las mujeres que se fanatizaron con la liberación femenina fueron las que encontraron una manera mar...
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VIRGINIA WOOLF When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazing...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Language is wine upon the lips.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
VIRGINIA WOOLF A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it mu...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the fi...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figu...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF One must love everything.
VIRGINIA WOOLF How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish,...
VIRGINIA WOOLF You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at...
VIRGINIA WOOLF These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one&#...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparen...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bag...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
VIRGINIA WOOLF One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than...
VIRGINIA WOOLF He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
VIRGINIA WOOLF When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman se...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hea...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want a...
VIRGINIA WOOLF For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury y...
VIRGINIA WOOLF For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty obser...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all g...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am roo...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
VIRGINIA WOOLF One might fancy that day, the London day, was just beginning. Like a woman who had slipped off her p...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change.
VIRGINIA WOOLF As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole worl...
VIRGINIA WOOLF How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the sol...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
VIRGINIA WOOLF What does the brain matter compared with the heart?
VIRGINIA WOOLF Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
VIRGINIA WOOLF If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private com...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
VIRGINIA WOOLF If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly an...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality o...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I am rooted, but I flow.
VIRGINIA WOOLF When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
VIRGINIA WOOLF Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge...
VIRGINIA WOOLF One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always se...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy...
VIRGINIA WOOLF With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck betwee...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLF One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtl...
VIRGINIA WOOLF What I value is the naked contact of a mind.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic ac...
VIRGINIA WOOLF All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last,...
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