Virginia Woolf: Frasi in inglese

Virginia Woolf era scrittrice, saggista e attivista britannica. Frasi in inglese.
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“madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Orlando

Origine: Orlando

“Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Una stanza tutta per sé

Origine: A Room of One's Own

“I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.”

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Virginia Woolf libro La stanza di Jacob

Origine: Jacob's Room

“Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Una stanza tutta per sé

Origine: A Room of One's Own

“I am drowning, my dear, in seas of fire.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Gita al faro

Origine: To the Lighthouse

“When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Le onde

Origine: The Waves

“It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for.”

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Virginia Woolf libro The Voyage Out

Origine: The Voyage Out

“Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And
I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often
not. Life is a dream surely.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Le onde

Bernard, section IX
Origine: The Waves (1931)
Contesto: Our friends, how seldom visited, how little known — it is true; and yet, when I meet an unknown person, and try to break off, here at this table, what I call “my life”, it is not one life that I look back upon; I am not one person; I am many people; I do not altogether know who I am — Jinny, Susan, Neville, Rhoda, or Louis; or how to distinguish my life from theirs.

“I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices”

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“They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Gita al faro

Origine: To the Lighthouse

“for women live much more in the past… they attach themselves to places;”

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Virginia Woolf libro Mrs Dalloway

Origine: Mrs. Dalloway

“No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes”

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“Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?”

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Virginia Woolf libro Orlando

Origine: Orlando

“One must love everything.”

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Virginia Woolf libro La stanza di Jacob

Origine: Jacob's Room

“Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then — our friends are not able to finish their stories.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Le onde

Origine: The Waves (1931), Ch. II

“There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?”

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“In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.”

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Virginia Woolf libro La stanza di Jacob

Origine: Jacob's Room