ANAIS NIN ~ LIFE AND DEATH
    
    
    
    
                
                    “I am a writer and I want to write.” ― Jane Bowles Fear and Hope “Like most people, you
                
                    THE SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR EFFECT “I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.” SIMONE
                
                    Some quotes by writer Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) “I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.” “One
    
    
                
                    This intense novel is about a young mother and wife called Zoe Kruller, who is brutally murdered. It uses mixed storylines
                
                    “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.” Anonymous Girl Reading
                
                    “I am a writer and I want to write.” ― Jane Bowles Fear and Hope “Like most people, you
    
    
                
                    “I am a writer and I want to write.” ― Jane Bowles Fear and Hope “Like most people, you
                
                    THE SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR EFFECT “I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.” SIMONE
                
                    ONE WAY TO READ A BOOK In the opinion of the famous writer Doris Lessing there is only one
    
    
                
                    THE SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR EFFECT “I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.” SIMONE
                
                    A confinement in body …not in soul. What started 5 weeks ago as a horrible time for me due
                
                    Silent Whisper Photo by Monique Lucy Weberink 2016
    
    I sit in a mood of reverie.
I’ve brought to Art desires and sensations:
things half-glimpsed,
faces or lines, certain indistinct memories
of unfulfilled love affairs.
Let me submit to Art:
Art knows how to shape forms of Beauty,
almost imperceptibly completing life,
blending impressions, blending day with day.
Constantine P. Cavafy
                
                    Federico Garcia Lorca “Let there be a landscape of open eyes and bitter wounds on fire. No one is sleeping
                
                    THE SIRENS ARE ENCHANTERS Circe warns Odysseus about the Sirens: “You will come first of all to the Sirens, who
                
                    A poem by Paul Eluard “I cannot be known Better than you know me Your eyes in which we sleep
    
    I sit in a mood of reverie.
I’ve brought to Art desires and sensations:
things half-glimpsed,
faces or lines, certain indistinct memories
of unfulfilled love affairs.
Let me submit to Art:
Art knows how to shape forms of Beauty,
almost imperceptibly completing life,
blending impressions, blending day with day.
Constantine P. Cavafy
                
                    Federico Garcia Lorca “Let there be a landscape of open eyes and bitter wounds on fire. No one is sleeping
                
                    THE SIRENS ARE ENCHANTERS Circe warns Odysseus about the Sirens: “You will come first of all to the Sirens, who
                
                    A poem by Paul Eluard “I cannot be known Better than you know me Your eyes in which we sleep
    
    
                
                    “I am a writer and I want to write.” ― Jane Bowles Fear and Hope “Like most people, you
                
                    THE SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR EFFECT “I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.” SIMONE
                
                    ONE WAY TO READ A BOOK In the opinion of the famous writer Doris Lessing there is only one
    
    
                
                    “I am a writer and I want to write.” ― Jane Bowles Fear and Hope “Like most people, you
                
                    THE SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR EFFECT “I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.” SIMONE
                
                    ONE WAY TO READ A BOOK In the opinion of the famous writer Doris Lessing there is only one
    
    “Dreams are but lies, says an old maxim; but when our last hour is at  hand, and but a few brief minutes are left to what was I, pale lights  that are fast growing dim, who can tell by what mark to distinguish you,  O memories of the actual life, from you, O mirages from the dream  life.” –
Paul Bourguet
Painting is Sadko, 1876 by Ilja Repin
                
                    Monique’s Passion ~ Living an Artful Life How did I end up living an Artful life? I want to start of by
                
                    Some Wisdom by Fernando Pessoa From The Book of Disquiet written by Fernando Pessoa. (1888-1935) “What can I expect from
                
                    The exotic world of Henri Rousseau “When…I see the strange plants of exotic lands, it seems to me that I
    
    
                
                    This intense novel is about a young mother and wife called Zoe Kruller, who is brutally murdered. It uses mixed storylines
                
                    “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.” Anonymous Girl Reading
                
                    “I am a writer and I want to write.” ― Jane Bowles Fear and Hope “Like most people, you