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NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE ~ ON LIFE

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“Life … is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don’t expect it.”

Niki de Saint Phalle

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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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JEAN COCTEAU ~ ON THE MYSTERIOUS RESEMBLANCE OF MUSIC

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“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.”

Jean Cocteau

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PABLO PICASSO ~ ON CHAGALL

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“When Chagall paints, you do not know if he is asleep or awake. Somewhere or other inside his head there must be an angel”

-Pablo Picasso, 1961

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DALI ~ ON CONFUSION

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“You have to systematically create confusion,
it sets creativity free. Everything that is
contradictory creates life.”
Salvador Dali

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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

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

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

BOOKS AND HAPPINESS

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

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