The journal
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Literature · Reflection
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. ANTON CHEKHOV Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of sh
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Literature · Reflection
An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. Henry Miller
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Literature · Reflection
“Total absence of humor renders life impossible.” Colette
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Literature · Reflection
“By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream” Virginia Woolf
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Literature · Reflection
Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a ‘universal’ without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. Chaim Potok
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Literature · Reflection
“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in
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Literature · Reflection
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Literature · Reflection
Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison. Angela Carter
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Literature · Reflection
It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interes
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Literature · Reflection
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Literature · Reflection
“A man is another person – a woman is yourself” Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)
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Literature · Reflection
Dale valor a las cosas, no por lo que valen, sino por lo que significan. Value things not because of their worth but because of their meaning. GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
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