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TINA MODOTTI ~ DONNA UNIVERSALE

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” I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.”

Tina Modotti (August 16 (or 17) 1896 – January 5, 1942) was an Italian photographer, model, actress, and revolutionary political activist.

Tina Modotti with her arms raised
Edward Weston, ca.1921

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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ~ THE BEAUTY OF LITERATURE

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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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LEO TOLSTOY ~ SPRING

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“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912)
Spring Flowers
Oil on panel

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ANAIS NIN ~ WHY DO WE WRITE?

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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anaïs Nin

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VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ COUNTING UP

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“Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I’ve read and what I haven’t read.” 
Virginia Woolf,  Between the Acts

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SAUL BELLOW ~ WRITING AT NIGHT

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“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
Saul Bellow

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A TRUE SENTENCE

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“I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, “Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”

Ernest Hemingway

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THE NEED OF A WOMAN

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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”

― Anaïs Nin

Portrait of Anne
André Lhote – 1930

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THE BUTTERFLY OF BRASSAI AND KEATS…

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“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Jules Brassai
Papillon à la bougie, 1933

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FRIDA KAHLO – NOTHING IS ABSOLUTE

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“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
― Frida Kahlo

Anonymous photographer:
Frida Kahlo in the Casa Azul, 1930

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