Virginia Woolf: Frasi in inglese (pagina 11)

“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.”

“Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.”

“How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?”

“The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.”

“The moment was all; the moment was enough.”

“Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.”

“… clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”

“What if I told you I’m incapable of tolerating my own heart?”

“… But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful…”

“Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.”

“A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one”

“At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.”

“But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.”

“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?”

“Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.”

“Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.”

“So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball”

“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.”

“The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness”