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HAPPY WOMEN’S DAY ~ 8 March 2019

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Simone de Beauvoir
French Writer Simone de Beauvoir

Some quotes by writer Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)

“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”

Simone de Beauvoir

 

Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.

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COLETTE AND HER LOVE FOR CATS.

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Did Colette the french famous writer loved cats?

A WRITER LOVES HER CAT.

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which…I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”  ― Colette

Why is it that so many writers of today and in the past, like Colette for example, love cats so much? Keep Reading

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RALPH WALDO EMERSON ~ ON BOOKS

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

C.S. LEWIS ~ FRIENDSHIP

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“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
C.S. Lewis

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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ~ THE BEAUTY OF LITERATURE

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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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LEO TOLSTOY ~ SPRING

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“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912)
Spring Flowers
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JULES BRASSAI ~ ON THE EXTRAORDINARY

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“I don’t invent anything. I imagine everything… most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life around me. I think that it is by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate to the extraordinary.”

Jules Brassai

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T.S. ELIOT ~ A CONVERSATION WITH MY SOUL

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“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
T.S. Eliot

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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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PHILIP ROTH ~ ON HUMAN BEINGS

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“Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?”

Philip Roth

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