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ANAIS NIN ~ ON RELATIONSHIPS

“You know I have friends who used to laugh at me when I said we have to create a relationship. They thought relationship is a miracle, it just happens, it comes, we find it, and there it is. But it’s not true. I never found that to be true. One friend was amazed at things that happened in a relationship over the years. And I said: “Yes, we created that. This friendship was created with talking, with struggle, with crises.” So wait until you feel right within yourself, and...

09 June 2013 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , , | 0 Comments
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GEORGE ORWELL ~ ON WISDOM

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” ― George Orwell

29 May 2013 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , | 0 Comments
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VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ ON LIFE

“We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It’s as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we’re very fortunate, by time itself. There’s just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds & expectations, to burst open & give us everything we’ve ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they)...

15 May 2013 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , | 0 Comments
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VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ THE SEA

“The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness” ― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

29 April 2013 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , | 0 Comments
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KAREN BLIXEN ~ CONSCIOUSNESS OF FREEDOM

“It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written or a train to catch, when you have got to work, to make the horses of the dream gallop, or to make the rifles go off, that the dream is declining, and turning into the nightmare, which belongs to the poorest and most vulgar class of dreams.” ― Karen Blixen, Out of Africa

29 April 2013 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , , | 0 Comments
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KATHERINE MANSFIELD ~ I WANT TO TALK TO TCHEKOV

“Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.” ― Katherine Mansfield, Journal of Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield playing the cello, Queen’s College, Harley Street, London, between 1903-1905

26 April 2013 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , , | 0 Comments
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IRENE NEMIROVSKY ~ A FEELING OF SOLITUDE

“But she loved studying and books, the way other people love wine for its power to make you forget. What else did she have? She lived in a deserted, silent house. The sound of her own footsteps in the empty rooms, the silence of the cold streets beyond the closed windows, the rain and the snow, the early darkness, the green lamp beside her that burned throughout the long evenings and which she watched for hours on end until its light began to waver before her weary eyes: this...

26 April 2013 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , , | 0 Comments
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ZELDA FITZGERALD ~ LONELINESS

The sky lay over the city like a map showing the strata of things and the big full moon toppled over in a furrow like the abandoned wheel of a gun carriage on a sunset field of battle and the shadows walked like cats and I looked into the white and ghostly interior of things and thought of you and I looked on their structural outsides and thought of you and was lonesome.” ― Zelda Fitzgerald, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda

26 April 2013 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , , | 0 Comments
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SYLVIA PLATH ~ I WANT…

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.” ― Sylvia Plath

24 April 2013 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , , | 0 Comments
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SYLVIA PLATH ~ ON LONELINESS

“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of “parties” with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter – they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship – but the loneliness of the...

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