F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ~ THE BEAUTY OF LITERATURE
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CHARLOTTE BRONTE ~ A FREE HUMAN BEING WANTING TO LEAVE
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OPHELIA ~ A TORMENTED SOUL
Arthur Hughes (1832-1915)
Ophelia in literature
Russian novelist Fyodor Dostojevski , in the first chapter of his 1880 masterpiece The Brothers Karamazov, described a capricious young woman who committed suicide by throwing herself off a steep cliff into a river, simply to imitate Shakespeare’s Ophelia. Dostoevsky concludes that “Even then, if the cliff, chosen and cherished from long ago, had not been so picturesque, if it had been merely a flat, prosaic bank, the suicide might not have taken place at all.” Dostoevksy also depicts the heroine Grushenka as Ophelia, binding the two through the words “Woe is me!” in the chapter entitled “The First Torment.”
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ANNE MICHAELS ~ ON GRIEF
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JOHN STEINBECK ~ HUMAN BEHAVIOR
It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck
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D.H. LAWRENCE ~ THE ADORATION OF A WOMAN
“It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if se adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it.
D.H. Lawrence – Lady Chatterley’s Lover
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IRENE NEMIROVSKY ~ ON MUSIC
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E.M. FORSTER ~ LIFE IS A SPECTACLE
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ANDRE BRETON ~ ARE WE LOST IN TIME?
“The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him – which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows”
André Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism.
Photo by Man Ray (1930)
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LANGSTON HUGHES ~ ON DREAMS
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