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Bernard, section IX
Zdroj: The Waves (1931)
Kontext: 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 kniha To the Lighthouse

Zdroj: To the Lighthouse

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

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Virginia Woolf kniha Mrs Dalloway

Zdroj: 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 kniha Orlando: A Biography

Zdroj: Orlando

“One must love everything.”

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Virginia Woolf kniha Jacob's Room

Zdroj: 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 kniha The Waves

Zdroj: 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 kniha Jacob's Room

Zdroj: Jacob's Room

“to teach without zest is a crime.”

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“Would there be trees if we didn't see them?”

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Virginia Woolf kniha The Years

Zdroj: The Years

“It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.”

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Virginia Woolf kniha A Room of One's Own

Varianta: It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly.... Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated.
Zdroj: A Room of One's Own

“Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!”

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Virginia Woolf kniha Mrs Dalloway

Zdroj: Mrs. Dalloway

“How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?”

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Virginia Woolf kniha To the Lighthouse

Zdroj: To the Lighthouse

“Oh, I am in love with life!”

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Virginia Woolf kniha The Waves

Zdroj: The Waves