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BALZAC ~ NARROW MINDS

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“Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficently over others”  (Eugenie Grandet)

Honore de Balzac

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Books and Happiness

BOOKS AND HAPPINESS

  “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.” Anonymous Girl Reading

PLATO ~ MUSIC AS A MORAL LAW

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“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. ”
Plato

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Still life by Giorgio Morandi

THE SURREALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI

THE SURREALITY/REALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI. Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker. “There is nothing more surreal,

BENJAMIN BRITTEN ~ THE CRUEL BEAUTY OF MUSIC

in Just a bit of everything and everyone.../The Melody of Art by

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

Benjamin Britten

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Still life by Giorgio Morandi

THE SURREALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI

THE SURREALITY/REALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI. Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker. “There is nothing more surreal,

CARL GUSTAV JUNG ~ ON HAPPINESS

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“The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness”
Carl Gustav Jung

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SAUL BELLOW ~ A GOOD MAN

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“He asked himself a question I still would like answered… ‘How should a good man live; what ought he to do?’

Dangling Man~ Saul Bellow

Published in 1944, Dangling Man reflected contemporary intellectual preoccupations with the nature of freedom.

Source 1001 books

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REBECCA WEST ~ THE ART OF SKEPTICISM

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“Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person,  only … between different parts of a person’s mind.”

Rebecca West, “The Art of Skepticism,” 1952

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EPICURUS ~ A WISE ADVICE

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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not;

remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus, Greek Philosopher (341-270 AD)

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PLATO ~ ON KNOWLEDGE

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. Plato

LIGHTHOUSE IN THE NIGHT ~ POEM BY ALFONSINA STORNI

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The sky a black sphere,
the sea a black disk.

The lighthouse opens
its solar fan on the coast.

Spinning endlessly at night,
whom is it searching for

when the mortal heart
looks for me in the chest?

Look at the black rock
where it is nailed down.

A crow digs endlessly
but no longer bleeds.

Alfonsina Storni

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LAST FIRE ~ POEM BY DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI

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Love,through your spirit and mine what summer eve
Now glows with glory of all things possess’d,
Since this day’s sun of rapture filled the west
And the light sweetened as the fire took leave?
Awhile now softlier let your bosom heave,
As in Love’s harbour, even that loving breast,
All care takes refuge while we sink to rest,
And mutual dreams the bygone bliss retrieve.
Many the days that Winter keeps in store,
Sunless throughout, or whose brief sun-glimpses
Scarce shed the heaped snow through the naked trees,
This day at least was Summer’s paramour,
Sun-coloured to the imperishable core
With sweet well-being of love and full heart’s ease.

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI

painting Daydream by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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JAMES WHISTLER ~ THE POETRY OF SIGHT

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Symphony in White (1865) by James Whistler

Whistler painted his lover Joanna Hiffernan. This painting shows her beautiful profile while reflected in the mirror.

The white of the dress is the dominant color in this painting.

Joanna has been Whistler’s lover for seven years, then she met his friend, the artist Courbet and became his lover.

“Just like music is the poetry of sound, painting is the poetry of sight, and this has nothing to do with a harmony of sound or color”

James Abbot Whistler

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