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PHILIP ROTH ~ ON HUMAN BEINGS

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“Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?”

Philip Roth

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VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ THE PASSION OF THE BRAIN

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My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?

Virginia Woolf

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JOSEPH CONRAD ~ THE SEA

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For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

Joseph Conrad

(1857 – 1924)

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ROBERT MUSIL ~ ON ART

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Don’t you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

Robert Musil

(1880 – 1942)

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THOMAS MANN ~ ON SOLITUDE

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“Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.”

Thomas Mann (Death in Venice)

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TOLSTOY ~ ON MUSIC

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“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”

Leo Tolstoy

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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

JULIO CORTAZAR ~ ON DISTRACTION

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“All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.”
Julio Cortazar – Around the Day in Eighty WorLds

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Books and Happiness

BOOKS AND HAPPINESS

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ROMAIN GARY ~ THE INSPIRATION OF LITERATURE

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“Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality” 1956
Romain Gary, 1914 -1980

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BOOKS AND HAPPINESS

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OCTAVIO PAZ ~ IS MODERN THINKING WIDE AWAKE?

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“Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.”

Octavio Paz
The labyrinth of Solitude

Mexican writer 1914-1998
Nobel Prize for literature in 1990

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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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