August 2011
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“I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I...”
– Anaïs Nin, Under a Glass Bell
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“I cannot promise very much.
I give you the images I know.
Lie still with me...”
– Anne Sexton
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“But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints....”
– Albert Camus, The Plague
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“Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolescence ever, quite...”
– Truman Capote, Too Brief a Treat
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“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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“I want paint to work as flesh.”
– Lucian Freud
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“I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls. We all have,...”
– Virginia Woolf
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“And more and more my language appears to me like a veil which one has to tear...”
– Samuel Beckett, 1937 from The Letters
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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought...”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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“I also painted a study of a seascape, nothing but a bit of sand, sea, sky, grey...”
– Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to his brother Theo, 17 September 1882 (source)
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“However stupid a fool’s words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an...”
– Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
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“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is one whose mind...”
– Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
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“He walked out into the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the...”
– Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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“I’m in no hurry. There’s no need
To wake you or disturb you with telegrams or...”
– Vladimir Mayakovsky, from his suicide note, trans. Erik Korn (via proustitute)