Virginia Woolf
British · 1882–1941
British modernist novelist and essayist who pioneered the stream-of-consciousness technique and became a central figure of the Bloomsbury Group.
Wikipedia ↗“Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.”
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“Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.”
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“The mind receives a myriad impressions — trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms.”
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“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
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“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”
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“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
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“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
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“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
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“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
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“The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
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“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
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“I am rooted, but I flow.”
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