Virginia Woolf Quotes


If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.


Citations

Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume III: 1923-1928. Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978, p. 287.

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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.