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GOGOL ~ PASSION OR HABIT?

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“What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?”

Nicolai Gogol

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CHEKHOV ~ UNDERSTANDING THE HUMAN MIND…

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No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

ANTON CHEKHOV

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history.

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VLADIMIR NABOKOV ~ ON POETRY

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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Vladimir Nabokov

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IGOR STRAVINSKY ~ GREAT ARTISTS

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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Igor Stravinsky

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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,

DOSTOEVSKY ~ A VOICE FROM BENEATH THE DAYLIGHT WORLD

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“The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was ‘sublime and beautiful’, the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

b. 1821 (Russia), d.1881

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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,

TURGENJEV ~ ON POETS

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A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

Ivan Turgenjev

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Portrait of Turgenjev by Ilja Repin

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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

KONSTANTIN PAUSTOVSKY ~ DREAMING

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“If we deprive the man of his ability to dream, one of the greatest motives that drives culture, arts, science and desire to fight for the beautiful future will fall aways.”

Konstantin Paustovsky

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KANDINSKY ~ ON ABSTRACT ART

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“Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with ‘reality,’ next to the ‘real’ world.”

Wassily Kandinksy 1866-1944

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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,

TOLSTOY ~ WRITER AND HIS SOUL

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“A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.”

Tolstoy

Photo 1848

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ILYA REPIN ~ MOONLIGHT

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“Moonlight” by Ilya Repin

“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”

W. Clement Stone


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