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GOGOL ~ PASSION OR HABIT?

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“What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?”

Nicolai Gogol

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D.H. LAWRENCE ~ A WOMAN CAN NOT BE HERSELF

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“She felt him invisibly master her spirit”

The Fox (1923)

“A woman cannot be herself, cannot be essentially a woman, until she submerges herself in the male”

D.H. Lawrence

(1885 -1930)

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JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER ~ ON THINKING

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“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

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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

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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VLADIMIR NABOKOV ~ ON POETRY

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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Vladimir Nabokov

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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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ROBERT MUSIL ~ THE MEANING OF POETRY

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“Ultimately a poem, and the mystery of it, cuts the meaning of the world clear, where it is bound fast by thousands of ordinary words …”

Robert Musil

Austrian author (1880-1942) of the famous novel The Man without Qualities

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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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