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MARCEL PROUST ~ ON DREAMING

in Art & the Unconscious Mind by

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust

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ANAIS NIN ~ ON MUSIC

in The Melody of Art by

“Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.”

~Anais Nin

Photos by Peter and Alice Gowland

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VICTOR HUGO ~ THE IMPORTANCE OF MUSIC

in The Melody of Art/The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. “

~Victor Hugo

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ANDRE BRETON ~ ARE WE LOST IN TIME?

in Art & the Unconscious Mind/The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him – which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows”

Andre Breton

André Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism.

Photo by Man Ray (1930)

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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

MALLARME ~ THE CREATION OF SILENCE

in Poetical Visions by

“It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.”
~Stephen Mallarme

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NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE ~ ON LIFE

in Just a bit of everything and everyone... by

“Life … is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don’t expect it.”

Niki de Saint Phalle

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JEAN COCTEAU ~ ON THE MYSTERIOUS RESEMBLANCE OF MUSIC

in The Melody of Art by

“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.”

Jean Cocteau

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ROMAIN GARY ~ THE INSPIRATION OF LITERATURE

in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality” 1956
Romain Gary, 1914 -1980

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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

BALZAC ~ NARROW MINDS

in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficently over others”  (Eugenie Grandet)

Honore de Balzac

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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

MARGUERITE YOURCENAR ~ KNOWING YOURSELF

in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.”

Marguerite Yourcenar (Memoirs of Hadrian)

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