Literature · Reflection
VLADIMIR NABOKOV ~ SENSE OR NONSENSE
“The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.” Vladimir Nabokov 1899-1977 This photo of Nabokov and his wife is taken in Switzerland.
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BERNARD MALAMUD ~ ON WRITING
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are. Bernard Malamud
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SCHOPENHAUER ~ ON LIFE AND DEATH
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. Arthur Schopenhauer
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JORGE LUIS BORGES ~ PARADISE IS A LIBRARY
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges
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JORGE LUIS BORGES ~ THE NIGHT
“I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.” Jorge Luis Borges
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PETER HANDKE ~ INTELLECTUAL WRITER
“…You should learn how to run properly and scream properly, with your mouth wide open… even when you yawn you’re are afraid to open your mouth all the way.” Peter Handke (Austria 1942- ) Handke sits firmly in the European tradition of intellectual writers who make serious demands
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MARK TWAIN ~ QUOTE
“Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Mark Twain 1835-1910
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HENRY JAMES ~ ON PASSION OR MADNESS OF ART
Portrait of Henry James “We work in the dark, We do what we can, We give what we have, Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task, The rest is the madness of art.?” Henry James Henry James (1843-1916) , noted American-born English essayist, critic, and author of the re
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EMILY BRONTE ~ DREAMS
I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. Emily Bronte English writer 1818-1848
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ALFRED STEVENS ~ YOUNG WOMAN READING
Alfred Stevens (1823-1906) Jeune femme lisant, 1856
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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA ~ KIZETTE IN RED
“Kizette in red” Tamara de Lempicka
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TOLSTOY ~ WRITER AND HIS SOUL
“A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.” Tolstoy Photo 1848
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