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EINSTEIN ~ ON PERSONALITY

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“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.”
Albert Einstein

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

DOROTHY PARKER ~ ON AUTHORS AND ACTORS

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“Authors and actors and artists and such – Never know nothing, and never know much”
Dorothy Parker

VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ BEING A WOMAN

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“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
Virginia Woolf

MARCEL PROUST ~ ON FREEDOM

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“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.”
Marcel Proust 1871-1922

WYNDHAM LEWIS ~ THE DEVIL

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“He must get his mouth on hers; he must revel in the laugh, where it grew. She was Nefaste. She was in fact evidently ‘the Devil’.”

Wyndham Lewis
Canadian 1882-1957

VLADIMIR NABOKOV ~ SENSE OR NONSENSE

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“The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.”
Vladimir Nabokov 1899-1977

This photo of Nabokov and his wife is taken in Switzerland.

BERNARD MALAMUD ~ ON WRITING

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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
Bernard Malamud

SCHOPENHAUER ~ ON LIFE AND DEATH

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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur Schopenhauer

JORGE LUIS BORGES ~ PARADISE IS A LIBRARY

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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges

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