"I will cut adrift..." Virginia Wolf

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I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.

- Virginia Woolf
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I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.

- Virginia Woolf
#Womensart

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16 of the Best Virginia Woolf Quotes
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), born Adeline Virginia Stephen, was one of the most important writers of the first half of the twentieth century. A leading modernist novelist and short-story writer whose novels Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves are widely regarded as classics, Woolf was also an influential writer of non-fiction.

Many of the quotations gathered below – which represent, for us, the best and most significant quotations found in Woolf’s work – come from works of non-fiction Woolf wrote: essays and lectures on the topics of fiction and gender, in particular. They also help to shine a light on Woolf’s views and attitudes.

‘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.’

This quotation is from Virginia Woolf’s 1919 essay ‘Modern Novels’, also known by the title ‘Modern Fiction’. In the essay, Woolf takes aim at the ‘materialist’ fiction of writers like H. G. Wells and Arnold Bennett, who are more concerned with the external details of a person’s life than the ‘inner lives’ of their characters.
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https://interestingliterature.com/2022/08/best-virginia-woolf-quotes/