Literature · Reflection
VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ SOLITUDE
“To love makes one solitary, she thought.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925)
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Art · Reflection
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY ~ WHITE NIGHTS
“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year. I feel I know you
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Art · Reflection
FRANZ KAFKA ~ THE 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 Herbert Bayer Metamorphosis, 1936
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Literature · Reflection
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ~ READ TO LIVE
“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
THOMAS HARDY ~ SOMETHING WITHIN US…
“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
JEALOUSY…THE GREEN-EY’D MONSTER
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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ALFRED LORD TENNYSON ~ DREAMS
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? Alfred Lord Tennyson Émile Constant Puyo Sommeil ca. 1887
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CHARLES DICKENS ~ A QUIET SILENT MAN
“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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Poetry · Reflection
ERATO, MUSE OF POETRY
Erato, Muse Of Poetry Sir Edward John Poynter (1870)
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EUDORA WELTY ~ ON WRITING A NOVEL
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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Art · Reflection
WILLEM DE KOONING ~ ON ORDER
“The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves” ― Willem De Kooning
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ANDRE BRETON ~ EXISTENCE IS EVERYWHERE
“It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.” Andre Breton Photo by Henry Cartier -Bresson.
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