Literature · Reflection
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
“The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life the stronger the daughter.” ― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent Mother and Daughter Alexei Harlamoff – 1901
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Poetry · Reflection
JORGE LUIS BORGES ~ MIRRORS
“Mirrors in metal, and the masked Mirror of mahogany that in its mist Of a red twilight hazes The face that is gazed on as it gazes” ― Jorge Luis Borges The Little Round Mirror Edward Steichen – 1901
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Literature · Reflection
SYLVIA PLATH ~ HOW IMPORTANT AM I ?
“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.” Sylvia Plath
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Literature · Reflection
W.H. AUDEN ~ ON BOOKS
“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.” W.H. Auden, ‘Reading’, 1963.
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Poetry · Reflection
HOPE AND MEMORY
“Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.” ― W.B. Yeats Hope and
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Music · Reflection
MUSIC AND SILENCE
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays Musicienne du Silence Arthur Hacker – 1900
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Literature · Reflection
FRANZ KAFKA ~ METAMORPHOSIS
“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.” ― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis Portrait Franz Kafka by Andy Warhol.
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Literature · Reflection
BEING ALONE, FEELING ALONE…
“We live as we dream–alone….” ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diary Alone Emilio Longoni – 1900
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Literature · Reflection
DANILO KIS ~ ANGEL OF SLEEP
“I would have liked to catch hold of sleep at least once, just as I had been resolved to catch hold of death one day, to catch hold of the wings of the angel of sleep when it came for me, to grab it with two fingers like a butterfly after sneaking up on it
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Reflections · Reflection
SECRET ACCUSATION ~ FRANCESCO PAOLO HAYEZ
Secret accusation Francesco Paolo Hayez – 1847-1848
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Literature · Reflection
EMILE ZOLA ~ MY BEING IN THIS WORLD
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” ― Émile Zola.
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Literature · Reflection
CHARLOTTE BRONTE ~ TRICKS OF THE CONSCIENCE
“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre The Bather Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – 1792
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