Virginia Woolf nejznámější citáty
Virginia Woolf: Citáty o životě
„Život je těžký, člověk potřebuje hroší kůži - a tu nemá“
kniha Politics and Aesthetics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf: Citáty o ženách
Virginia Woolf citáty a výroky
„… bohatství je, pokud jsme klidní v srdci chaosu.“
Zdroj: [Exley, Helen, Pro klid v duši 365 : Citáty na každý den, Zuzana Pavlová, Slovart, Praha, 2018, 368, 978-80-7529-518-7, 274]
„Kolikrát lidé použili pero nebo štětec, protože nedokázali zmáčknout spoušť?“
Zdroj: https://www.instagram.com/p/Crv5OqJt8k7/?hl=cs
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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/799410-how-many-times-have-people-used-a-pen-or-paintbrush
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Virginia Woolf: Citáty anglicky
“Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.”
Virginia Woolf kniha A Room of One's Own
Zdroj: A Room of One's Own
“Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.”
Virginia Woolf kniha A Room of One's Own
Zdroj: A Room of One's Own
“I am drowning, my dear, in seas of fire.”
Virginia Woolf kniha To the Lighthouse
Zdroj: To the Lighthouse
“She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.”
Virginia Woolf kniha The Waves
Zdroj: The Waves
Virginia Woolf kniha The Waves
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.
Virginia Woolf kniha To the Lighthouse
Zdroj: To the Lighthouse
“for women live much more in the past… they attach themselves to places;”
Virginia Woolf kniha Paní Dallowayová
Zdroj: Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf kniha Orlando: A Biography
Zdroj: Orlando
Virginia Woolf kniha Jacob's Room
Zdroj: Jacob's Room
Virginia Woolf kniha The Waves
Zdroj: The Waves (1931), Ch. II
“It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.”
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
Virginia Woolf kniha The Waves
Zdroj: The Waves
Virginia Woolf kniha Paní Dallowayová
Zdroj: Mrs. Dalloway
