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CESARE PAVESE ~ THE PLEASURE OF BEING ALIVE

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“There is only one pleasure, that of being alive. All the rest is misery”

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese was an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator. He is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country.  (Wikipedia)

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ANAIS NIN ~ ON DREAMS

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“Dreams are necessary to life”
Anais Nin

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GEORGE SAND ~ MY INNER STRENGTH

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“When my submission has been claimed, no longer in the name of love and friendship but by reason of some right or power, I have drawn upon the strength that is buried in my nature, I have straightened my shoulders and thrown off the yoke. I alone know the latent force hidden within me. I alone know how much I grieve and suffer and love.”

George Sand

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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

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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

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GALILEO ~ ON TRUTHS

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” Galileo Galilei Astronomer Galileo

PRIMO LEVI ~ ON HAPPINESS

“Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who stop to consider

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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MARCEL PROUST ~ CHILDHOOD AND BOOKS

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“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”

Marcel Proust

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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

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW ~ THE VALUE OF ART

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“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
George Bernard Shaw

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INGEBORG BACHMANN ~ A LOST SENSE OF BELONGING SOMEWHERE

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“She wondered all the same how much they really had to say to one another, given that they had only this city in common and a similar way of talking, the same intonation, perhaps she’d just wanted to believe after that third whiskey on the roof garden at the Hilton that he would give her back something she’d lost, a missing taste, an intonation gone flat, that ghostly feeling of home, though she was no longer at home anywhere.”
― Ingeborg Bachmann, Simultan: Erzählungen

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