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Literature · Reflection
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays Edmund Charles Tarbell (American painter) 1862 – 1938 Interior of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, ca. 1926
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Literature · Reflection
“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.” ― Hermann Hesse
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Literature · Reflection
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” ― Franz Kafka
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Literature · Reflection
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” ― Mark Twain Hipogeu Camps-Nonell ,1908
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Literature · Reflection
“The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer Jacques-Augustin Pajou (
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Literature · Reflection
“You know I have friends who used to laugh at me when I said we have to create a relationship. They thought relationship is a miracle, it just happens, it comes, we find it, and there it is. But it’s not true. I never found that to be true. One friend was amazed at things
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Literature · Reflection
Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams.” ― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems Anna Akhmatova. Slepnevo.1914
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Literature · Reflection
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” ― George Orwell
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Literature · Reflection
“We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It’s as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we’re very fortunate, by time itself. There’
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Literature · Reflection
“The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness” ― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
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Literature · Reflection
“It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written or a train to catch, when you have got to work, to make the horses of the dream gallop, or
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Literature · Reflection
“Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.” ― Katherine Mansfield, Journal of Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfi
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