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Virginia Woolfová bola anglická spisovateľka, kritička, esejistka a feministka. Zároveň bola v medzivojnových rokoch členkou Bloomsbury Group. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. január 1882 – 28. marec 1941  •  Ďalšie mená Adeline Virginia Woolf
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„Nie je potrebné ponáhľať sa. Nie je potrebné žiariť. Nemusíte byť nikáým, okrem seba.“

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„A ty chceš byť básnikom; a ty chceš byť milencom.“

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„Život je ťažký, fakty sú nekompromisné a prechod do tej bájnej krajiny, kde zhasínajú naše najjasnejšie nádeje a naše krehké kôpky sa utápajú v tme, si vyžaduje predovšetkým odvahu, pravdu a silu vydržať.“

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Virginia Woolf citáty a výroky

„Knihy sú zrkadlami duše.“

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„Pani Dallowayová povedala, že kúpi kvety sama.“

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„Umelec je koniec koncov osamelá bytosť.“

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„Vyučovať a kázať asi presahuje ľudské schopnosti.“

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Prisudzované výroky

„Pozoruj na okamih svoju bežnú myseľ v bežný deň.“

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„Odvážila by som si tipnúť, že Anon, ktorý napísal toľko básní bez toho, aby ich podpísal, bola často žena.“

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„Pokiaľ nie som sama sebou, nie som nikto.“

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Virginia Woolf: Citáty v angličtine

“I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love; love makes knots; love brutally tears them apart. I have been knotted; I have been torn apart.”

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Virginia Woolf kniha The Waves

Zdroj: The Waves

“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.”

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Virginia Woolf kniha A Room of One's Own

Zdroj: A Room of One's Own

“One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.”

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Zdroj: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Six, 1936-1941

“I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.”

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Zdroj: The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919

“It is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people… Think of things in themselves.”

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Virginia Woolf kniha A Room of One's Own

Zdroj: A Room of One's Own

“We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.”

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Virginia Woolf kniha The Waves

Zdroj: The Waves

“O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!”

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Virginia Woolf kniha The Waves

Zdroj: The Waves

“I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.”

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Virginia Woolf kniha The Waves

Zdroj: The Waves

“But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.”

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Virginia Woolf kniha Mrs Dalloway

Zdroj: Mrs. Dalloway

“Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.”

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Virginia Woolf kniha Jacob's Room

Zdroj: Jacob's Room

“Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent.”

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Virginia Woolf kniha The Waves

Zdroj: The Waves

“The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.”

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Virginia Woolf kniha The Waves

Zdroj: The Waves

“For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.”

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“For nothing was simply one thing.”

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Virginia Woolf kniha To the Lighthouse

Zdroj: To the Lighthouse

“Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.”

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Virginia Woolf kniha Orlando: A Biography

Zdroj: Orlando

“You’re the only person I’ve ever met who seems to have the faintest conception of what I mean when I say a thing.”

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Virginia Woolf kniha The Voyage Out

Zdroj: The Voyage Out

“Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the center which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.”

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Virginia Woolf kniha Mrs Dalloway

Zdroj: Mrs. Dalloway

“Chastity… has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.”

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Virginia Woolf kniha A Room of One's Own

Zdroj: A Room of One's Own

“Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.”

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“When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre”

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Virginia Woolf kniha Mrs Dalloway

Zdroj: Mrs. Dalloway

“For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn…”

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Virginia Woolf kniha Mrs Dalloway

Zdroj: Mrs. Dalloway

“Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame”

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Virginia Woolf kniha Mrs Dalloway

Zdroj: Mrs. Dalloway

“It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.”

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“Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.”

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Virginia Woolf kniha A Room of One's Own

Zdroj: A Room of One's Own

“so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again…”

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Virginia Woolf kniha To the Lighthouse

Zdroj: To the Lighthouse

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