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VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ COUNTING UP

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“Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I’ve read and what I haven’t read.” 
Virginia Woolf,  Between the Acts

SAUL BELLOW ~ WRITING AT NIGHT

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“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
Saul Bellow

THE NEED OF A WOMAN

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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”

― Anaïs Nin

Portrait of Anne
André Lhote – 1930

THE MEANING OF MUSIC

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“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven


Max Klinger (1857-1920)
Beethoven Memorial
Marble and bronze

MY LIBRARY IS AN ARCHIVE OF LONGINGS

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“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

Writer Susan Sontag shown Jan. 11, 1964. (AP Photo)

PAUL VERLAINE – WHAT IS A POEM?

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“A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.”
― Paul Verlaine

Paul Verlaine II
Anders Zorn – 1895

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE – A WORLD IN ART

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“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.”
― Georgia O’Keeffe

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE – A WORLD IN ART

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“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.”
― Georgia O’Keeffe

FRIDA KAHLO ~ ON LAUGHING

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“Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.”

― Frida Kahlo

Guillermo Davila:
Frida Kahlo, 1929

SEPARATION

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“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.”
― Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

Separation. Edvard Munch. 1896.

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