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JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER ~ SADNESS OF THE INTELLECT

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SADNESS OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]; Sadness of having options; Sadness of wanting sadness; Sadness of confusion; Sadness of domes[tic]ated birds, Sadness of fini[shi]ng a book; Sadness of remembering; Sadness of forgetting; Anxiety sadness…”

Jonathan Safran Foer  (Everything is illuminated)

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OSCAR WILDE ~ SOUL AND SENSES

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“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

Oscar Wilde (The picture of Dorian Gray)

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TURGENJEV ~ ON POETS

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A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

Ivan Turgenjev

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Portrait of Turgenjev by Ilja Repin

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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

ANAIS NIN ~ ON FRIENDSHIP

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“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anais Nin

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KAFKA ~ CREATE WITH PASSION

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“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
Franz Kafka

Photo Kafka Museum

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OSCAR WILDE ~ ON ART

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“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
Oscar Wilde

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MARGUERITE YOURCENAR ~ INTELLECTUALISM

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“…and I reminded myself that the reproach of intellectualism is often directed at the most sensitive natures, those most ardently alive, those obliged by their frailty or their excess of strength constantly to resort to the arduous disciplines of the mind.”

Marguerite Yourcenar

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MARGUERITE YOURCENAR ~ KNOWING YOURSELF

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“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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THOMAS MANN ~ ON WRITING

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“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
Thomas Mann

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TOVE JANSSON ~ CRAZY ABOUT BOOKS

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“One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago
I met a little girl with a book under her arm.
I asked her why she was out so early and
she answered that there were too many books and
far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.”
— Tove Jansson

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