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
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.
mother daughter baby
Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.
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
funny art pain
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
interesting truthful results
Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
book reading mirrors
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
reality phantoms harder
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.