Literature · Reflection
ROBERT MUSIL ~ ON ART
Don’t you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art? Robert Musil (1880 – 1942)
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Literature · Reflection
THOMAS MANN ~ ON SOLITUDE
“Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.” Thomas Mann (Death in Venice)
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JULIO CORTAZAR ~ ON DISTRACTION
“All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.” Julio Cortazar – Around the Day in Eighty WorLds
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ROMAIN GARY ~ THE INSPIRATION OF LITERATURE
“Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality” 1956 Romain Gary, 1914 -1980
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OCTAVIO PAZ ~ IS MODERN THINKING WIDE AWAKE?
“Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.” Octavio Paz The labyrinth of Solitude Mexican writer 1914-1998 Nobel
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BALZAC ~ NARROW MINDS
“Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficently over others” (Eugenie Grandet) Honore de Balzac
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SAUL BELLOW ~ A GOOD MAN
“He asked himself a question I still would like answered… ‘How should a good man live; what ought he to do?’ Dangling Man~ Saul Bellow Published in 1944, Dangling Man reflected contemporary intellectual preoccupations with the nature of freedom. Source 1001 books
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REBECCA WEST ~ THE ART OF SKEPTICISM
“Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only … between different parts of a person’s mind.” Rebecca West, “The Art of Skepticism,” 1952
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Literature · Essay
WHY I LOVE ANNA KARENINA ~ BY MONIQUE LUCY WEBERINK
ANNA KARENINA BY LEO TOLSTOY Anna Karenina is definitely one of the most impressive books I know. I have read it several times and every time I seem to be able to discover something new again. Of course this has everything to do with my life experience. The first time I read it I
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ANAIS NIN ~ ON WRITING
“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.” Anais Nin
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THE REAL ALICE ~ IN WONDERLAND
Alice Liddell, 1870 (Alice in Wonderland) Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)
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