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MARCEL PROUST ~ PARADISE LOST

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“The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.”
Marcel Proust.

Paradise Lost
Geza Farago – 1903

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MOTHER AND DAUGHTER

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“The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life […] the stronger the daughter.”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

Mother and Daughter
Alexei Harlamoff – 1901

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SYLVIA PLATH ~ HOW IMPORTANT AM I ?

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“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
Sylvia Plath

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W.H. AUDEN ~ ON BOOKS

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“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”

W.H. Auden,

‘Reading’, 1963.

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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

FRANZ KAFKA ~ METAMORPHOSIS

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“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

Portrait Franz Kafka by Andy Warhol.

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BEING ALONE, FEELING ALONE…

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“We live as we dream–alone….”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diary

Alone

Emilio Longoni – 1900

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DANILO KIS ~ ANGEL OF SLEEP

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“I would have liked to catch hold of sleep at least once, just as I had been resolved to catch hold of death one day, to catch hold of the wings of the angel of sleep when it came for me, to grab it with two fingers like a butterfly after sneaking up on it from behind. […] My sleep game was practice for the grand struggle with death.”
― Danilo Kiš, Garden, Ashes

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EMILE ZOLA ~ MY BEING IN THIS WORLD

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“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola.

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CHARLOTTE BRONTE ~ TRICKS OF THE CONSCIENCE

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“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

The Bather
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – 1792

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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,

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