Art · Reflection
MARCEL PROUST ~ ON DREAMING
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. Marcel Proust
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Literature · Reflection
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE ~ ON HAPPINESS
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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DJUNA BARNES ~ BEING A WOMAN
“A man is another person – a woman is yourself” Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)
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GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ ~ THE VALUE OF THINGS
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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Poetry · Reflection
D.H. LAWRENCE ~ ON HUMANITY
“When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and get into the forests again, we shall shiver with cold and fright but things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will r
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JULIO CORTAZAR ~ THE BRIEF LOVE/EL BREVE AMOR
THE BRIEF LOVE How smoothly and how sweetly she lifts me from the bed where I was dreaming of profound and fragrant fields, she runs her fingers over my skin and sketches me in space, suspended, until the kiss alights curved and recurrent a slow flame kindling the rhythmic dance
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D.H. LAWRENCE ~ ON DREAMING
“All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, For they dream their dreams with open eyes, And make them come true.” D.H. Lawrence
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D.H. LAWRENCE ~ THE ADORATION OF A WOMAN
“It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if se adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave,
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IRENE NEMIROVSKY ~ ON MUSIC
“…for music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and invoke something indestructible within them.” Irene Nemirovsky ― Suite Francaise
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IRENE NEMIROVSKY ~ A GOODBYE
“Adieu,” he said, “this is goodbye. I’ll never forget you, never.” She stood silent. He looked at her and saw her eyes full of tears. He turned away. At this moment she wasn’t ashamed of loving him, because her physical desire had gone and all she felt towards him now was pity an
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DOSTOEVSKY ~ A VOICE FROM BENEATH THE DAYLIGHT WORLD
“The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was ‘sublime and beautiful’, the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.” Fyodor Dostoevsky b. 1821 (Russia), d.1881
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Art · Reflection
ANAIS NIN ~ ON MUSIC
“Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.” ~Anais Nin Photos by Peter and Alice Gowland
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