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Literature · Reflection
Some Wisdom by Fernando Pessoa From The Book of Disquiet written by Fernando Pessoa. (1888-1935) “What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreamin
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Literature · Reflection
Voltaire once said: “Illusion is the first of all Pleasures.” What is she thinking about, it makes you wonder if her disillusion – as depicted in this painting – could actually be an illusion in itself. A trick of the mind that causes this emotion inside, a feeling of sadness and
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Literature · Reflection
“Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can make one feel that oneself, as an individual human being, is slowly being unraveled. The surrounding space is so vast that it becomes increasingly difficult to ke
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“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” Elie Wiesel Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel KBE was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Holocaust survivor, and Nobel Laureate. Wikipe
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Literature · Reflection
Some books leave us free and some books make us free – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Literature · Reflection
“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them — wit
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Literature · Reflection
“To love makes one solitary, she thought.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925)
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Literature · Reflection
“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” ― Gustave Flaubert Henri Roger-Viollet 1893
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Literature · Reflection
“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.” Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Roman
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Literature · Reflection
Edvard Munch – Jealousy (1895) “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.” ― William Shakespeare, Othello
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Literature · Reflection
“He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his own thoughts. He had never known before the strength of the want in his heart for the frequent recognition of a nod, a look, a word; or the immense amount of
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Literature · Reflection
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer’s own life. Eudora Welty
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