#ss

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#newspaper #soul

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. ↗

— Will Durant

#always #clever #good #good thing #history

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find. ↗

— James Stephens

#carelessly #find #her #man #singing

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#always #believe #childhoods #craziest #ever

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#barren #coming #darkness #day #drunkenness

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#i see #journalism #journalists #laborers #literature

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#feeling #had #happiness #him #loved

Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#away #christ #fall #help #jesus

Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#curse #given #god #great #magnificent

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. ↗

— Emile Durkheim

#comparison #dreams #imaginations #reality #seems