@@andrewan6326 finding issues with life .. is most of the time an whipping up of emotions and feelings ... effective with the hyper-empaths and manic-empaths
I strongly recommend her diaries. It is the best possible novel, her life, written in the most beautiful but unguarded prose. I go back to them every few years when I am on holiday and just want to soak up her lucid thinking and mastery of the English language.
"Nevertheless, life is pleasant, life is tolerable. Tuesday follows Monday; then comes Wednesday. The mind grows rings; the identity becomes robust; pain is absorbed in growth. Opening and shutting, shutting and opening, with increasing hum and sturdiness, the haste and fever of youth are drawn into service until the whole being seems to expand in and out like the mainspring of a clock. How fast the stream flows from January to December! We are swept on by the torrent of things grown so familiar that they cast no shadow. We float, we float …" - Virginia Woolf, The Waves
We can't anticipate what kind of days are waiting for us . We always expect the days filled into joy and happiness but not always. Just there is one thing that we can as human beings. We just must endure the painful days and enjoy the pleasant days. Equal. And also The life will be changed as our minds.
Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own inspired me to read and write. There was something about her piercing words that changed my perspective about many things. I’m grateful for her talent, sad about how much she suffered in life.
To The Lighthouse changed my conception of what writing could achieve. It's one of the finest novels I've ever encountered, and I entreat whomever sees this comment to read it.
Ditto. Until I read To The Lighthouse, I didn't know it was possible for a novel to be so unbearable that I wanted to gouge my own eyes out. But now I know. Now I know.
I cannot describe how genius this woman was. I'm planning to read every single work by her because the way she portraits the most trivial things is way too complex and impressive; also, "The Waves" is by far, one of the most beautiful books i've ever read.
An outrageous snob : member of the privileged upper class who monopolized Art and Literature at that time . She despised the " working classes ' ie. Anyone not as rich as she and her circle . A pity that the Bolsheviks didn't seize power in England.
@@reshmah606 Wonderful play. I wonder what Virginia would've thought of it and Albee. Or George and Martha, for that matter. I'm thinking she would've enjoyed it, and A Delicate Balance, as well.
I love #2, accept the everyday. Things are the way they are, and denying it won't do anything. Also, I like in #3 how in her day and age she was willing to question gender and sexuality, which people now days even have trouble with. I really need to read some more of her works.
Hello! I've recently discovered your channel, and I've fallen in love with it immediately. Not only it's very entertaining, but also it keeps you curious about new authors and ideas. I'm looking forward to reading Virginia Woolf! What's more, the narrator's voice - it's a dream... Thanks a lot!!!
I've always have a love/hate relationship with Virginia Woolf's works. On one hand, they're very hard for me to absorb properly and I ended up getting frustrated. But on the other hand, I managed to see the message clearly. I keep going back to Mrs. Dalloway from time to time seeing if I can truly understand what she was truly trying to say. She's always the first person I think of whenever it comes to more complex writing.
This wonderful lesson made me feel very guilty... I wish I could be a person who is so sensitive and compassionate as to feel the pain of even a moth in this world. But unfortunately, not very long ago, I have poisoned almost an entire generation of moths on one single day here at my place...They were eating all my pullovers! I suspect that those folks have an eating disorder. Why do you begin with the next pullover, before you finish eating this one?? If it wasn't so, I would have left them one, and we would all be fine...And if only I had read that essay by Virginia Woolf before, they would all be alive till the end of that particular day. Honestly, literature can save lives too! From this lesson I liked very much the idea of turning down the outside volume, so that we can hear our own selves better. But if you listen to them for too long and incessantly, the voices from the inside may literally make you insane. And if you listen too much to the outside world, you may begin to live only for the approval of those voices. May be we should live like a Tonmeister with very fine hearing, adjusting the volume from both sides all the time. By the way, especially for male friends who hate feminists I wanted to recommend two TED Talks, by two women I know you will like. If you don't, write me back! Because I would really wonder why. 1. Confessions of a bad feminist: Roxane Gay 2. We should all be feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ( this is on youtube) (She is a Nigerian writer. Such a sensitive, wise and funny woman. It is a pleasure to listen to her really.) In her book " A Room of One's Own" Virginia Woolf invented a fictional character: William's sister Judith Shakespeare. This is what she says: “I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee’s life of the poet. She died young-alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the cross-roads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed."
+Lua Veli It's not the moths fault they're caught in human made structures and materials crafted from nature. Moths believe they're eating what they need to live. If you wish feel more empathy all you need to do is observe others. Observe and listen is the path to wisdom and empathy. Smoking herb helps too.
+Jack Heathen Good evening Jack. If you mean the herb I know, the only time I smoked that, I ate everything on my friend's table, including half a glass of Nutella. That is no sign of empathy I guess...Very bad manners indeed. And that was certainly the last time. But thank you for your message:-)
***** Hey no worries. But to clarify that's just a side-effect of cannabis, lol! Raiding your or your friends' fridge when stoned tends to happen, but you get used to it the more you smoke. Psychedelics do indeed help build empathy (or spiritual insight) over time. Getting stoned and reading a book is one of my favorite things to do.
+Alicia en el pais de las maravillas Hello again Alicia! Thanks a lot for your message and very sorry for my late reply. Of course I perfectly understand what you mean. My wish would be to be as sensitive as possible without losing my mental sanity:-) I know people like that indeed. I have a very beloved friend who is a lawyer for human rights in Turkey. She mainly deals with cases of political prisoners who had been tortured and raped by the army forces. I once asked her whether she turned to be more tough after listening to these terrible stories from hundreds of people. Imagine...I was wondering if it became somehow easier over the years. She said definitely not. She still cries often and suffers with them. But she fills very fulfilled when she can do her work well. That's where her strength comes from. So there are people who take their strength from their fragility. Under one condition: they make a constant effort to "think clearly" meanwhile. I wanted to recommend you a wonderfully wise TED Talk called " On humanity" by the Nigerian writer Chris Abani . He really had been through hell. But look what a tender and gentle person he had become. He is a perfect example of what I mean. I would love to read everthing that man wrote! Have a nice week! :-)
Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body. Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Thank you very much ! I'm french and I study English at university. Your videos and your channel save my life ! The exams gonna be so easy with this ! Thanks a lot !
Isn't there a certain irony to Virginia Woolf? She detested the snobbery of the time she lived in and yet her books have created a new kind of snobbery in literature and academia.
Life is not just a tragedy, it is also a comedy. All the world's a stage, and as in the theatre, history is the third genre containing elements of both tragedy and comedy. Life is neither relentlessly dark nor light. It's both. Same goes for people.
Reading To The Lighthouse introduced me to a whole new kind of writing. Then I read The Waves and damn. It didn't really have a story but it was so trippy. Her writing is so poignant and beautiful, loaded with metaphors, but also simple everyday things. Not everyone would like it, even I wouldn't want to read it at any random time, but when you're in the right headspace, it's just so good and trippy.
I recently read Mrs Dalloway and I still haven't decided yet how I feel about it. On one hand I absolutely loved the way she described the scenery and the characters' feelings, I loved the words and overall language she used, but on the other hand it simply was too much for me to focus on, I couldn't keep track of all the characters and it was hard for me to follow the plot - I hardly remember anything that happened. The only thing that stood out to me (=what I can recall) was the schizophrenic veteran. So yeah, to me it was a beautifully and vibrantly written boring as hell book from which I don't remember any of the plot or characters.
I think it is less about story (though there of course is one) and more about characters. It's format, the continuous story which changes scenes and characters with subtlety, was hard for me to get used to at first, but after 50 pages or so I felt like it flowed like a song. The schizophrenic veteran was shockingly well written for sure, but I also loved the complicated feelings that Clarissa had regarding the men in her life and the particularly unique character of clarissa's daughters friend/mentor/fan (the religious woman). I both disliked and felt bad for that woman. The story itself could be hard to follow but I feel like once youre in it you can really enjoy the ride.
Don't give up on her yet. I didn't particularly enjoy Mrs Dalloway, but To the Lighthouse blew me away. I'm actually glad Mrs Dalloway wasn't the first of her books I read - otherwise I might have never touched another one!
Perhaps this is the strongest pleasure known to me. It is the rapture I get when in writing I seem to be discovering what belongs to what; Making a scene come right; Making a character come together. From this I reach what I might call a philosophy; At any rate it is a constant idea of mine; That behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; That we-I mean all human beings-are connected with this; That the whole world is a work of art; That we are parts of the work of art. 🕊️ Virginia Woolf
I love Wisecrack and The School of Life. I can't remember which channel I started watching first, but I'm glad I'm subscribed to both. Thanks for the informative videos.
I really think a Katherine Mansfield video would be phenomenal because she was great friends with Woolf and greatly influenced the writings of many other modernist writers.
I'd love to see a video dedicated to the state of loneliness/social isolation in the world as it is today. Your videos are incredibly therapeutic thank you
I studied philosophy and natural sciences at University. The School of Life has pieced together components of existential thought that have taken me 20 years of vigorous learning and life experience to bring together. Nice Work, I want to help.
fantastic video: thanks a lot!! My students won't understand everything but certainly will be able to get an excellent idea of what the great Virginia Woolf was
"What could be more serious than the love of man for woman, what more commanding, more impressive, bearing in its bosom the seeds of death; at the same time these lovers, these people entering into illusion glittering eyed, must be danced round with mockery, decorated with garlands" --Virigina Woolf "Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person" --Ayn Rand
Fantastic video! I love Virginia Woolf! She was way ahead of her time. I especially appreciate the gender-bending, which is done so artfully in Orlando; and the manner in which she urges us to throw aside conventional gender roles and become a genuine person not subject to our present culture's definitions of proper roles. The adventurous time-transcendant experiences of the protagonist in the novel also demonstrates the contingent and constantly changing nature of cultural and social norms, elucidating the fact that all of what we believe to be right and proper are merely products of the time we live in. In this, again, she urges us to rise above and be true to our inner selves. And such beautiful prose. Absolutely love it.
Thank you, +School of Life. I really enjoyed this one. At University, I had to read To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando (which I exceptionally enjoyed), and "A Room of One's Own"; they were fantastic works. Woolf puts me in the mood to quietly reflect, and I cannot say that all literature makes me want to do that. I often wonder how people like her would take our ultra-frenetic tech age now.
Recommendations to me show other Literature vids. I’m going to love this series. It’s my first time here and I’m always interested in the life of authors. Keep doing this segment!
Dearest, I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that - everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
I think this is a very interesting and informative video, I learned a lot about Virginia Woolf, she did a lot for women and helped them, this is a wonderful and interesting person
I love these videos. I had heard of Virgina Woolf, and though I haven't read it, I definitely will. Just one thing: could you please put subtitles in your videos? I'm from Spain, and I don't always understand all that you say on your videos if I can't read it.
wow thanks for the video and honesty in it. many videos about virginia dont talk about the sexual abuse, but it was so important to her mental state and emotional understanding
I cannot stress enough what a pleasure this thoughtful channel is. And how great that you promote Wisecrack because I enjoy them exactly because of their intelligent comedic approach to great ideas. I love this corner of the internet.
My university professor directed me towards this channel's James Joyce video. It's a really fun way to gain some context on the writers whose works I'm studying. :)
Dostoevsky, Joyce? Cmon' school of life, your work is most sublime from this video I really took alot more out of her work then I would of if I hadn't. It would be nice if you could make more videos on writers.
I'm about to finish my first VW novel, Orlando, along with a book containing her letters to Vita and vice-versa. Also some diary entries. I have a difficult time liking things moderately, so as soon as I connected with her novel, I began consuming all of her at once. Oh, well. What can I say? a fascinanting woman. Being queer myself, she's even more inspiring.
''it is both a blessing and a curse, to feel everything so very deeply''
That is kind of what Janis Joplin said too.. she said she was often a "victim of her insides".
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Insight beyond normality
@@andrewan6326 finding issues with life .. is most of the time an whipping up of emotions and feelings ... effective with the hyper-empaths and manic-empaths
Who ?
I strongly recommend her diaries. It is the best possible novel, her life, written in the most beautiful but unguarded prose. I go back to them every few years when I am on holiday and just want to soak up her lucid thinking and mastery of the English language.
wgar is the name of same? Diaries?
I read Van Gogh’s letters and loved them. I didn’t know Woolf had diaries we could read!
"Nevertheless, life is pleasant, life is tolerable. Tuesday follows Monday; then comes Wednesday. The mind grows rings; the identity becomes robust; pain is absorbed in growth. Opening and shutting, shutting and opening, with increasing hum and sturdiness, the haste and fever of youth are drawn into service until the whole being seems to expand in and out like the mainspring of a clock. How fast the stream flows from January to December! We are swept on by the torrent of things grown so familiar that they cast no shadow. We float, we float …"
- Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Love this quote! I think The Waves is better than Mrs Dalloway, yet seldom talked about
We all float down here
We can't anticipate what kind of days are waiting for us .
We always expect the days filled into joy and happiness but not always.
Just there is one thing that we can as human beings.
We just must endure the painful days and enjoy the pleasant days.
Equal.
And also
The life will be changed as our minds.
Her best novel, in my opinion.
“The mind grows rings; the identity becomes robust; pain is absorbed in growth.”
Goodness, I dream of writing like this one day.
Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own inspired me to read and write. There was something about her piercing words that changed my perspective about many things. I’m grateful for her talent, sad about how much she suffered in life.
u should also make videos...
Hi, Please suggest some woolf’s works 🎀
My favourite writer and the writer that got me into reading literature
WiWiPiWiWi beautiful
To The Lighthouse changed my conception of what writing could achieve. It's one of the finest novels I've ever encountered, and I entreat whomever sees this comment to read it.
Ditto. Until I read To The Lighthouse, I didn't know it was possible for a novel to be so unbearable that I wanted to gouge my own eyes out. But now I know. Now I know.
Is it similar to Orlando (in terms of style)?
@ Gabriel Zarate
It's even more tedious.....if that's possible.
@@2msvalkyrie529 Nuance =/= tediousness.
Thanks for the love, Alain!
have you did any of her books?
I cannot describe how genius this woman was.
I'm planning to read every single work by her because the way she portraits the most trivial things is way too complex and impressive; also, "The Waves" is by far, one of the most beautiful books i've ever read.
One of my favorite female writers. What a woman! My will to study every day more and more is definitely fruit of her legacy.
she sounds like a genius
+The School of Life I read this in a British accent.
she is
She was a genius.
An outrageous snob : member of
the privileged upper class who
monopolized Art and Literature
at that time .
She despised the " working classes ' ie. Anyone not as rich as
she and her circle .
A pity that the Bolsheviks didn't seize power in England.
She was
This video has made me less afraid of Virginia Woolf. Thank you.
Peter Carman
why r u afraid
Love your reference, wise man!
@M C You're not familiar with Edward Albee's play 'Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf'
@@reshmah606 Wonderful play. I wonder what Virginia would've thought of it and Albee. Or George and Martha, for that matter. I'm thinking she would've enjoyed it, and A Delicate Balance, as well.
"A room of one's own" is such a well-structured piece, I recommend it to anyone who is interested in her works
I'm totally good with these longer videos. The short quickly spoken ones leave me hungry sometimes.
I love #2, accept the everyday. Things are the way they are, and denying it won't do anything. Also, I like in #3 how in her day and age she was willing to question gender and sexuality, which people now days even have trouble with. I really need to read some more of her works.
love this page. Literature is life.
Hello! I've recently discovered your channel, and I've fallen in love with it immediately. Not only it's very entertaining, but also it keeps you curious about new authors and ideas. I'm looking forward to reading Virginia Woolf! What's more, the narrator's voice - it's a dream...
Thanks a lot!!!
I just found this channel and I must say I fucking this! It's like 'love at first video' :)
YES
you fucking this video?
ALL HAIL DONALD TRUMP
Woolf saw many aspects of the world with fresh eyes, still enlightening and delightful to read
This Channel is, at least for me, the most interesting and important in whole TH-cam history!
I've always have a love/hate relationship with Virginia Woolf's works. On one hand, they're very hard for me to absorb properly and I ended up getting frustrated. But on the other hand, I managed to see the message clearly. I keep going back to Mrs. Dalloway from time to time seeing if I can truly understand what she was truly trying to say. She's always the first person I think of whenever it comes to more complex writing.
This wonderful lesson made me feel very guilty... I wish I could be a person who is so sensitive and compassionate as to feel the pain of even a moth in this world. But unfortunately, not very long ago, I have poisoned almost an entire generation of moths on one single day here at my place...They were eating all my pullovers! I suspect that those folks have an eating disorder. Why do you begin with the next pullover, before you finish eating this one?? If it wasn't so, I would have left them one, and we would all be fine...And if only I had read that essay by Virginia Woolf before, they would all be alive till the end of that particular day. Honestly, literature can save lives too!
From this lesson I liked very much the idea of turning down the outside volume, so that we can hear our own selves better. But if you listen to them for too long and incessantly, the voices from the inside may literally make you insane. And if you listen too much to the outside world, you may begin to live only for the approval of those voices. May be we should live like a Tonmeister with very fine hearing, adjusting the volume from both sides all the time.
By the way, especially for male friends who hate feminists I wanted to recommend two TED Talks, by two women I know you will like. If you don't, write me back! Because I would really wonder why.
1. Confessions of a bad feminist: Roxane Gay
2. We should all be feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ( this is on youtube)
(She is a Nigerian writer. Such a sensitive, wise and funny woman. It is a pleasure to listen to her really.)
In her book " A Room of One's Own" Virginia Woolf invented a fictional character: William's sister Judith Shakespeare. This is what she says:
“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee’s life of the poet. She died young-alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the cross-roads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed."
+Lua Veli It's not the moths fault they're caught in human made structures and materials crafted from nature. Moths believe they're eating what they need to live. If you wish feel more empathy all you need to do is observe others. Observe and listen is the path to wisdom and empathy. Smoking herb helps too.
+Jack Heathen
Good evening Jack. If you mean the herb I know, the only time I smoked that, I ate everything on my friend's table, including half a glass of Nutella. That is no sign of empathy I guess...Very bad manners indeed. And that was certainly the last time. But thank you for your message:-)
***** Hey no worries. But to clarify that's just a side-effect of cannabis, lol! Raiding your or your friends' fridge when stoned tends to happen, but you get used to it the more you smoke. Psychedelics do indeed help build empathy (or spiritual insight) over time. Getting stoned and reading a book is one of my favorite things to do.
+Jack Heathen Observe and listen to right people I would say. The rest are disappointing.
+Alicia en el pais de las maravillas
Hello again Alicia! Thanks a lot for your message and very
sorry for my late reply. Of course I perfectly understand what you mean. My wish would be to be as sensitive as possible without losing my mental
sanity:-) I know people like that indeed. I have a very beloved friend
who is a lawyer for human rights in Turkey. She mainly deals with cases
of political prisoners who had been tortured and raped by the army
forces. I once asked her whether she turned to be more
tough after listening to these terrible stories from hundreds of people. Imagine...I
was wondering if it became somehow easier over the years. She said
definitely not. She still cries often and suffers with them. But she
fills very fulfilled when she can do her work well. That's where her
strength comes from. So there are people who take their strength from
their fragility. Under one condition: they make a constant effort to
"think clearly" meanwhile.
I wanted to recommend you a wonderfully wise TED Talk called " On humanity" by the Nigerian writer Chris Abani . He really had been through hell. But look what a tender and gentle person he had become. He is a perfect example of what I mean. I would love to read everthing that man wrote!
Have a nice week! :-)
BEST CHANNEL EVER!! IT makes this sad seal happy. So much to read, I want to be the kind of person that has read at leat one of this classics.
Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.
Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Thank you very much ! I'm french and I study English at university. Your videos and your channel save my life ! The exams gonna be so easy with this ! Thanks a lot !
Isn't there a certain irony to Virginia Woolf? She detested the snobbery of the time she lived in and yet her books have created a new kind of snobbery in literature and academia.
I know that this comment is months old but, Life is full with Ironies. Life is Ironic.
Life isn't just ironic. Life is ridiculous.
Life is not just a tragedy, it is also a comedy. All the world's a stage, and as in the theatre, history is the third genre containing elements of both tragedy and comedy. Life is neither relentlessly dark nor light. It's both. Same goes for people.
@@MacJaxonManOfAction Life is a tragedy in a close-up and a comedy in a long shot.
Life is 47
This has to be one of the best channels on TH-cam, hands down.
Reading To The Lighthouse introduced me to a whole new kind of writing. Then I read The Waves and damn. It didn't really have a story but it was so trippy. Her writing is so poignant and beautiful, loaded with metaphors, but also simple everyday things. Not everyone would like it, even I wouldn't want to read it at any random time, but when you're in the right headspace, it's just so good and trippy.
This channel has saved my life and will be recommending to all. Its a must DAILY watch...put's things into persepctive. School of Life You Rock!
Feel so blessed to come across this brilliant channel! Deep gratitude!
The School of Life: All of your videos are wonderful, but this one made me shed a tear!
I'm writing a research paper on Woolf and her views on war and women. This is a wonderful start. Thank you!
I recently read Mrs Dalloway and I still haven't decided yet how I feel about it. On one hand I absolutely loved the way she described the scenery and the characters' feelings, I loved the words and overall language she used, but on the other hand it simply was too much for me to focus on, I couldn't keep track of all the characters and it was hard for me to follow the plot - I hardly remember anything that happened. The only thing that stood out to me (=what I can recall) was the schizophrenic veteran.
So yeah, to me it was a beautifully and vibrantly written boring as hell book from which I don't remember any of the plot or characters.
Boring nonsense indeed! Craip!
I think it is less about story (though there of course is one) and more about characters. It's format, the continuous story which changes scenes and characters with subtlety, was hard for me to get used to at first, but after 50 pages or so I felt like it flowed like a song. The schizophrenic veteran was shockingly well written for sure, but I also loved the complicated feelings that Clarissa had regarding the men in her life and the particularly unique character of clarissa's daughters friend/mentor/fan (the religious woman). I both disliked and felt bad for that woman. The story itself could be hard to follow but I feel like once youre in it you can really enjoy the ride.
Don't give up on her yet. I didn't particularly enjoy Mrs Dalloway, but To the Lighthouse blew me away. I'm actually glad Mrs Dalloway wasn't the first of her books I read - otherwise I might have never touched another one!
I totally agree, it’s a boring book.
Good choice. A wonderful writer. I don't know of a better London novel than Mrs Dalloway.
Woolf's talent shines. I just love her. From Brazil.
Perhaps this is the strongest pleasure known to me.
It is the rapture I get when in writing I seem to be discovering what belongs to what;
Making a scene come right;
Making a character come together.
From this I reach what I might call a philosophy;
At any rate it is a constant idea of mine;
That behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern;
That we-I mean all human beings-are connected with this;
That the whole world is a work of art;
That we are parts of the work of art.
🕊️
Virginia Woolf
I love Wisecrack and The School of Life.
I can't remember which channel I started watching first, but I'm glad I'm subscribed to both.
Thanks for the informative videos.
The School of Life, could you please do a video on Sylvia Plath and Vladimir Nabokov?
You have literally just saved my English grade
I really think a Katherine Mansfield video would be phenomenal because she was great friends with Woolf and greatly influenced the writings of many other modernist writers.
Many thanks for this suggestion - and for watching our films.
Please make a video about Thomas Mann, please!
Been waiting for this episode for a long time. Thanks, School of Life!
Hey School of Life! I love your videos. They are amazing and really helpful.
I'd love to see a video dedicated to the state of loneliness/social isolation in the world as it is today. Your videos are incredibly therapeutic thank you
Can you make a one about Oscar Wilde
THIS
YES
Who can deny classic? I take all my energy from such kind of classic.
I studied philosophy and natural sciences at University. The School of Life has pieced together components of existential thought that have taken me 20 years of vigorous learning and life experience to bring together. Nice Work, I want to help.
Profound, eloquent, but straight to the point! Well done!
Thank you for continuing the literature series
fantastic video: thanks a lot!! My students won't understand everything but certainly will be able to get an excellent idea of what the great Virginia Woolf was
"What could be more serious than the love of man for woman, what more commanding, more impressive, bearing in its bosom the seeds of death; at the same time these lovers, these people entering into illusion glittering eyed, must be danced round with mockery, decorated with garlands"
--Virigina Woolf
"Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person" --Ayn Rand
Woo Wisecrack! Always nice to see them getting a mention, marvellous video btw.
I love your avatar! That's James Taylor right?
Yes it is haha! Thank you!
+Maestro Gee Mr. Taylor rocks so much!
+Larry Wolfgang he's gay
A Sylvia Plath video too?
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Fantastic video! I love Virginia Woolf! She was way ahead of her time. I especially appreciate the gender-bending, which is done so artfully in Orlando; and the manner in which she urges us to throw aside conventional gender roles and become a genuine person not subject to our present culture's definitions of proper roles. The adventurous time-transcendant experiences of the protagonist in the novel also demonstrates the contingent and constantly changing nature of cultural and social norms, elucidating the fact that all of what we believe to be right and proper are merely products of the time we live in. In this, again, she urges us to rise above and be true to our inner selves. And such beautiful prose. Absolutely love it.
Very enlightening.
One of the best so far. Makes me want to revisit Woolf.
I love you, guys! She is by far my favorite woman writter.
Great video! I love her ideas on gender and freedom from the expectations of them. I've thought similar things myself.
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Thank you so much for your videos!
Thank you, +School of Life. I really enjoyed this one. At University, I had to read To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando (which I exceptionally enjoyed), and "A Room of One's Own"; they were fantastic works. Woolf puts me in the mood to quietly reflect, and I cannot say that all literature makes me want to do that. I often wonder how people like her would take our ultra-frenetic tech age now.
I just finished reading Orlando. Not only is Virginia modern in her views, but also in her writing structures and resources. Very impressive.
Please do videos on poets, photographers and filmmakers. These are brilliant to watch.
What a lovely video.
I enjoyed this tremendously..
"spend energy with subtle sentences" all my love to this
Recommendations to me show other Literature vids.
I’m going to love this series. It’s my first time here and I’m always interested in the life of authors.
Keep doing this segment!
Dearest,
I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that - everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer.
I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
I think this is a very interesting and informative video, I learned a lot about Virginia Woolf, she did a lot for women and helped them, this is a wonderful and interesting person
Thank you so much for yet another great and informative video.
Of course, I like this video❤❤❤
Oh how I've been longing for more literature. May I suggest Poe?
Outstanding
I love these videos. I had heard of Virgina Woolf, and though I haven't read it, I definitely will. Just one thing: could you please put subtitles in your videos? I'm from Spain, and I don't always understand all that you say on your videos if I can't read it.
Beautiful video! Thanks
You guys should do Walt Whitman next!
yes please!
Bilal Rahmani ohh nice one and maybe Hemingway as well
Bilal Rahmani ohh nice one and maybe Hemingway as well
Bilal Rahmani
Muchas gracias por los subtitulos en español, gracias. Magnífica página con la que me topé. Saludos.
Great video! I think I have a few of her books in my library but I've never read them. Time to do it.
I think if I had School of Life, Wisecrack, and Crash Course I'd be set. All three make excellent educational content.
A writer who will always be one of those nearest to my heart.
Weird. In my IB classes we have been doing a Virginia Woolf unit and have been analyzing some of her various essays. This is cool and helpful!
A lucid exposition of one of the greatest modern writers...
Loved it! Can you do something on Hemingway's work? Or, why not, on Joyce?
wow thanks for the video and honesty in it. many videos about virginia dont talk about the sexual abuse, but it was so important to her mental state and emotional understanding
Thanks so much for these videos!!
I cannot stress enough what a pleasure this thoughtful channel is. And how great that you promote Wisecrack because I enjoy them exactly because of their intelligent comedic approach to great ideas. I love this corner of the internet.
i have nothing but euphoric agreement to this and to this channel and the people who watch it
These educational videos of yours I am in love with!
Please consider making one on Rebecca West! She was revolutionary in her diversity as a writer.
My university professor directed me towards this channel's James Joyce video. It's a really fun way to gain some context on the writers whose works I'm studying. :)
Dostoevsky, Joyce?
Cmon' school of life, your work is most sublime
from this video I really took alot more out of her work then I would of if I hadn't.
It would be nice if you could make more videos on writers.
You make me think that
Our planet is a vast and beautiful place, full of exciting and wonderful people
Woohoo Wisecrack rocks! And you School of Life are already becoming my favorite learning channel next to them.
Please do a video about Jack Kerouac/Beat Generation literature!
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Thanks for bringing up Kerouac. His free flowing prose brought to me fleeting states of transendence i've chased since, to no avail.
This is the best channel ever!
Love from India. :)
Thank you so much for this
can you do one on william faulkner?
I love this channel ..very precise analysis
Do more literature please!!
Truly excellent channel! Thank you!
Is there any chance that you'd make a video covering Bertolt Brecht? Weather or not you cover him, I still love this series, keep up the good work!
I'm about to finish my first VW novel, Orlando, along with a book containing her letters to Vita and vice-versa. Also some diary entries. I have a difficult time liking things moderately, so as soon as I connected with her novel, I began consuming all of her at once. Oh, well. What can I say? a fascinanting woman. Being queer myself, she's even more inspiring.
her diaries and letters reveal a quite wonderful, delightful and wide-ranging mind. She travelled to a different drummer
thank you Alain!