Literature · Reflection
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ~ BEING AN ARTIST
“The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him” Gustave Flaubert, 1857 (1821-1880)
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Literature · Reflection
ISAAC ISRAELS ~ READING GIRL ON A SOFA
“Reading girl on a sofa” 1920 Isaac Israels Dutch painter
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ANAIS NIN ~ MEANING OF LIFE
“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.” Anais Nin
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KATHERINE MANSFIELD ~ BEING A WRITER
“I’m a writer first and a woman after.” Katherine Mansfield, 1920 (1888-1923)
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Aldous Huxley
“The proper study of mankind is books” Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
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Karl Kraus ~ In Praise
“The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror—- so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original” Karl Kraus, In Praise, 1908 (1874-1936)
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