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JEAN COCTEAU ~ MOMENT IN TIME

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Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

~Jean Cocteau, Professional Secrets, 1922

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VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ THE THRUTH

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“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top”
Virginia Woolf

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ELIZABETH BOWEN ~ ON PROBLEMS

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” —It appears to me that problems— loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.”
Elisabeth Bowen 1899-1973
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IRENE NEMIROVSKY ~ SOME THINGS WILL NEVER CHANGE…

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“But what is certain is that in five, ten or twenty years, this problem unique to our time, according to him, will no longer exist, it will be replaced by others…Yet this music, the sound of this rain on the windows, the great mournful creaking of the cedar tree in the garden outside, this moment, so tender, so strange in the middle of war, this will never change, not this, this is forever.”
— Irène Némirovsky (Suite Française)

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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

ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER ~ ON CREATING

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“Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR ~ ON LIFE

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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Simone de Beauvoir

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SHAW ~ ON DREAMS AND REALITY

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You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’”

George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950

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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

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ANAIS NIN ~ POETICAL HAPPINESS

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“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”
Anais Nin

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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

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

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