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HENRY MILLER ~ THE LONELINESS OF AN ARTIST

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An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Henry Miller

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COLETTE ~ ON HUMOR

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“Total absence of humor renders life impossible.”

Colette

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VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ WHAT DO WE NEED IN LIFE?

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“By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream”

Virginia Woolf

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CHAIM POTOK ~ A WORLD WITHOUT PATRIOTISM

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Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a ‘universal’ without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

Chaim Potok

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VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ THE MEANING OF LIFE

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“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”

Virginia Woolf ~ To the Lighthouse

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GOETHE ~ THE LONELY SOUL

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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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,

ANGELA CARTER ~ ON THE MYSTERIE OF DREAMING

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Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

Angela Carter

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JOHN STEINBECK ~ HUMAN BEHAVIOR

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It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

John Steinbeck

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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

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE ~ ON HAPPINESS

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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DJUNA BARNES ~ BEING A WOMAN

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“A man is another person – a woman is yourself”

Djuna Barnes

(1892-1982)

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