Virginia Woolf: Frasi in inglese (pagina 12)

“Why must they grow up and lose it all?”

“Well, we must wait for the future to show.”

“If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?”

“Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.”

“But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.”

“Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.”

“I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.”

“Her eyes are pure stars, and her fingers, if they touch you, freeze you to the bone.”

“Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.”

“I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement…”

“I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.”

“For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.”

“If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women…”

“Marvelous are the innocent.”

“For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.”

“Nothing has really happened unless it's been described [in words].”

“Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.”

“it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams”

“One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.”