Literature · Reflection
ELIZABETH BOWEN ~ ON PROBLEMS
” —It appears to me that problems— loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.” Elisabeth Bowen 1899-1973 writer
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Literature · Reflection
IRENE NEMIROVSKY ~ SOME THINGS WILL NEVER CHANGE…
“But what is certain is that in five, ten or twenty years, this problem unique to our time, according to him, will no longer exist, it will be replaced by others…Yet this music, the sound of this rain on the windows, the great mournful creaking of the cedar tree in the garden out
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ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER ~ ON CREATING
“Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.” Isaac Bashevis Singer
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SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR ~ ON LIFE
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir
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… SICK OF BEING A MAN ~ BY VICTOR M. ALONSO
Borges said that “beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel in the whole body”; and must be so. The feelings impact us in the solar plexus, the heart, the chest. Now I do not intend to enter into the eternal dispute about the ideal of beauty, I always imagined that it is
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EINSTEIN ~ ON PERSONALITY
“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.” Albert Einstein
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KONSTANTIN PAUSTOVSKY ~ DREAMING
“If we deprive the man of his ability to dream, one of the greatest motives that drives culture, arts, science and desire to fight for the beautiful future will fall aways.” Konstantin Paustovsky
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DOROTHY PARKER ~ ON AUTHORS AND ACTORS
“Authors and actors and artists and such – Never know nothing, and never know much” Dorothy Parker
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VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ BEING A WOMAN
“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.” Virginia Woolf
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MARCEL PROUST ~ ON FREEDOM
“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.” Marcel Proust 1871-1922
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WYNDHAM LEWIS ~ THE DEVIL
“He must get his mouth on hers; he must revel in the laugh, where it grew. She was Nefaste. She was in fact evidently ‘the Devil’.” Wyndham Lewis Canadian 1882-1957
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MARINA TSVETAEVA ~ ON BOOKS
“There are books so alive that you’re always afraid that while you weren’t reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. Bu
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