Virginia Woolf Quotes


Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.


Citations

Woolf, Virginia. A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909. Edited by Mitchell A. Leaska, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990, p. 154.

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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
  • Born: January 25, 1882
  • Died: March 28, 1941
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Author

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and also a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.