‘In quoting others, we cite ourselves.’ - Julio Cortázar
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‘One should never be cured of one’s passions.’
Marguerite Duras, Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein, 1964
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‘There is no syllable one can speak that is not filled with tenderness and terror, …’
Jorge Luis Borges, La Bibliotheca de Babel, 1941
Rodney Smith
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29 May 2020
‘The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.’
G. K. Chesterton
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22 Aug 2025
‘We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?’
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953
André Carrara
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12 Jun 2020
‘In Vienna there are shadows. The city is black and everything is done by rote. I want to be alone. (...) I must see new things and investigate them ...’ - Egon Schiele
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13 Jun 2020
‘The feelings that hurts most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd. The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for that never was, the desire for what could have been; ...’
Fernando Pessoa
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Mar 5
‘René Char
you are a poet who believes
in the power of beauty
to right all wrongs.
I believe it also.’
Carlos Williams Carlos -To a Dog Injured in the Street
from: The Desert Music and Other Poems, 1954
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15 Jun 2024
‘Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine,’
René Char
Feuillets d’ Hypnos, 1946
Paul Klee, Grenzes des Verstandes, 1927
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Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty. ~ Yasunari Kawabata
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I believe in the sun, even when it rains. ~ Anne Frank
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Feb 28
“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
John Steinbeck
#Iran #Trump #Netanyahu
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che miliardi di viventi
una dolce matina, si desteranno,
come in ogni mattina della lora vita,
nel semplice sole dell'Europa futura
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#poesia #fotografia
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Mais aujourd'hui c'est aujourd'hui
Je sens que mon commencement est proche
Robert Desnos
#poesie #photographie
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21 Jun 2023
‘When evening is quietness in my patio,
from your pages morning will rise.
Your winter will be the shadow of my summer,
and your light the glory of my shadow …’
Jorge Luis Borges, To Rafael Cansinos-Asséns
Edward Hopper, Summer Evening 1947
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14 Jun 2022
‘I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better,
certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines.
One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not?’
Jorge Luis Borges
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14 Jun 2019
‘I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.’ ~
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer, poet and essayist, August 24 1899 - June 14 1986
#literature #Borges #reading #books #ReadABook #libraries
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Tonight, as I looked out of my window, I was surprised by a procession of planets and stars: Jupiter and Venus, followed by Pollux and Castor, the twin stars of Gemini. It was such a beautiful configuration, as if the evening sky had arranged itself just for a moment of wonder.
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