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SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR ~ ONE’S PAST

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“It’s very hard to review one’s past without cheating a little.”

Simone de Beauvoir

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RUDYARD KIPLING ~ ON LIFE

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“This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.” 
― Rudyard Kipling, Kim
Rudyard Kipling
John Maler Collier – 1900

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SYLVIA PLATH ~ LONELINESS

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“And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Alone
Emilio Longoni – 1900

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MARIE KONSTANTINOWNA BASHKIRTSEFF ~ IMAGINATION

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“If we look closely, most things in this world are the results of imagination.”

Maria Konstantinowna Bashkirtseff (1858-1884)

The Umbrella
1883
State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation)

Young Woman with Lilacs

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MARCEL PROUST ~ THE MULTIPLICATION OF WORLDS

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“Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists…”

Marcel Proust

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FERNANDO PESSOA ~ CONTEMPLATION

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“Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Giulio Artistide Sartorio (1860-1932)
Studio per la testa della Gorgone
Oil on Canvas

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CESARE PAVESE ~ THE PLEASURE OF BEING ALIVE

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“There is only one pleasure, that of being alive. All the rest is misery”

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese was an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator. He is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country.  (Wikipedia)

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ANAIS NIN ~ ON DREAMS

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“Dreams are necessary to life”
Anais Nin

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GEORGE SAND ~ MY INNER STRENGTH

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“When my submission has been claimed, no longer in the name of love and friendship but by reason of some right or power, I have drawn upon the strength that is buried in my nature, I have straightened my shoulders and thrown off the yoke. I alone know the latent force hidden within me. I alone know how much I grieve and suffer and love.”

George Sand

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VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ A REWARD FOR BOOKWURMS?

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“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”

Virginia Woolf

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