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VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ A REWARD FOR BOOKWURMS?

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“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”

Virginia Woolf

PAUL KLEE ~ THE EYE

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“One eye sees, the other feels.”
― Paul Klee

Paul Klee is his studio, 1908

 

Fish Magic, 1925

MANET ~ COLOURS OF NATURE

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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

Edouard Manet
The Monet family in their garden at Argenteuil – Edouard Manet

PRIMO LEVI ~ GOD DOES NOT EXIST

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” I must say that the experience of Auschwitz for me was such as to sweep away any remnants of the religious education that I had had…Auschwitz existed, therefore God cannot exist. I find no solution to that dilemma. I seek a solution, but I don’t find it. “

Primo Levi

WILLIAM FAULKNER ~ I’M A FAILED POET

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“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.”

—William Faulkner

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