Virginia Woolf Quotes


We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time we know that nothing of this sort matters; love is not proved thus, nor great achievements completed thus; so that we sport with the moment and preen our feathers in it lightly.


Citations

Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. Hogarth Press, 1927.

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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.