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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

VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ THE POETRY OF HUMAN LIFE

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“That perhaps is your task–to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your way fearlessly and saturate it completely so that your poem is a whole, not a fragment; to re-think human life into poetry and so give us tragedy again and comedy by means of characters not spun out at length in the novelist’s way, but condensed and synthesized in the poet’s way–that is what we look to you to do now.”
― Virginia Woolf

Photograph: Virginia and Leonard Woolf

FRANZ KAFKA ~ UNHAPPY DREAMS

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“But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.”
― Franz Kafka

HENRY DAVID THOREAU ~ HOW DO MOST MEN LIVE?

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“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays


Edmund Charles Tarbell (American painter) 1862 – 1938
Interior of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, ca. 1926

HERMAN HESSE ~ THE WRITTEN WORD

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“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
― Hermann Hesse

FRANZ KAFKA ~ THE IMPORTANCE OF A BOOK

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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

MARK TWAIN ~ PREPARED TO DIE…

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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

Hipogeu Camps-Nonell ,1908

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER ~ PAIN CAUSED BY DEATH

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“The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

Jacques-Augustin Pajou (Jacques Augustin Pajou) (1730-1809)
Bacchante tenant un tambour de basque, avec deux enfants [detail #2]
Marble

Louvre (France)

ANAIS NIN ~ ON RELATIONSHIPS

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“You know I have friends who used to laugh at me when I said we have to create a relationship. They thought relationship is a miracle, it just happens, it comes, we find it, and there it is. But it’s not true. I never found that to be true. One friend was amazed at things that happened in a relationship over the years. And I said: “Yes, we created that. This friendship was created with talking, with struggle, with crises.” So wait until you feel right within yourself, and then you’ll feel right towards others.”
— Anais Nin

GEORGE ORWELL ~ ON WISDOM

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“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

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