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The Bohemian who tires of life, who gives up by retirement into insamity or suicide, is not necessarily one who had failed in what he wants to express.


Emily Hahn


#life

I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or for the natural side-wave of her brown hair, done anyhow, or again for that movement of her plump shoulders. But, probably the truth was that I loved her because she loved me. To her I was the ideal man: brains, pluck. And there was none dressed better. I remember once, when I first put on that new dinner jacket, with the vast trousers, she clapsed her hands, sank down on a chair and murmured: 'Oh, Hermann...." It was ravishment bordering upon something like heavenly woe.


Vladimir Nabokov


#love #love

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.


Gustave Flaubert


#books #literature #reading #literature

After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles, fables on the pattern A+ B, a clear-sighted, sickly literature. No more poetry but analytic fantasy. Something monomaniacal. Things playing a more important part than people; love giving away to deductions and other forms of ideas, style, subject and interest. The basis of the novel transferred from the heart to the head, from the passion to the idea, from the drama to the denouement.


Jules De Goncourt


#novels #poe #writers #writing #love

People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.


Yasunari Kawabata


#development #japan #japanese-literature #love #love

If you are good, they say you are weak.


Dejan Stojanovic


#dejan-stojanovic #good #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

There is only as much space, only as much time, Only as much desire, only as many words, Only as many pages, only as much ink To accept all of us at light-speed Hurrying into the Promised Land Of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later.


Dejan Stojanovic


#desire #ink #light-speed #literature #literature-quotes

Neither alive nor dead; No one lets up, No one wins.


Dejan Stojanovic


#circling #dead #dejan-stojanovic #letting-go #literature

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?


Dejan Stojanovic


#books #century #creating #dante #dejan-stojanovic

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.


Irving Langmuir


#heights #international #literature #make #rises






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