Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf, known professionally as Virginia Woolf, was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 January 1882
CityLondon, England
freedom enjoy control-ourselves
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
believe passion men
No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes
incessant solitary company
Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.
past mrs-dalloway
for women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places;
writing world
All the time she writing the world had continued.
blessing reality boredom
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
party mean tea
and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage
moderation dangerous extremes
All extremes are dangerous.
freedom women reading
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
beautiful broken
...But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful...
life dream truth
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
love thinking-of-you forget
Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you
Thoughts without words… Can that be?
eye mind vain
No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes