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…In the people whom we love there is imminent in them a certain dream, which we are not always able to discern, but which we nonetheless pursue… ❤️#Proust #FindingTimeAgain

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The after-storm of June… 💙#poetry #bennington

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“Kafkologists used to debate at length whether their author granted us any hope. No, not hope. Something else. Even that life-denying situation is revealed by Kafka as a strange dark beauty. Beauty, the last triumph possible for man who can no longer hope…” — Milan Kundera ❤️

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“The generals of desire are often followed by/ the barking dogmas of the heart.” — Mark Strand

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#agni #poetry #ukraine 💙🇺🇦 by #DmitryBlizniuk translation by #SergeyGerasimov

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Books are like love letters; they are destined for a particular person.

-- Lawrence Durrell (1960)

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Q. How would you prefer to die?

A. Of love!

— Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence Durrell & Claude-Marie Vincendon

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In flight …. #horizon #poetry

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passion, but it must be implacable to anyone who decides to barter away his soul, his intellect and his thought.” p 229 #Balzac #LostIllusions

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“But if you took to espionage I should shrink from you in horror, for you would be adopting treachery and infamy as a system. That, in a word, is what journalism does. Friendship condones mistakes and the rash impulses of 1/2 #Balzac

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them: they confided their joys and sorrows to one another and freely expressed their thoughts and tribulations…” 3/3 p 221 #Balzac #LostIllusions

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“What makes friendships indissoluble and doubles their charm is a feeling not found in love—the feeling of certainty. These young people were sure of one another: the enemy of one became the enemy of all; they would have sacrificed their most 1/3 p 221 #Balzac #LostIllusions

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urgent interests in obedience to the sacred solidarity which United their hearts…Sine the were certain of understanding one another, they gave free reign to their wit, and so there was no formality between 2/3 p 221 #Balzac #LostIllusions

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

the thing is, to make art, to fall in love, to do anything really worth doing, you have to risk embarrassment, humiliation, heartbreak. to do anything you have to risk being. and that's being in front of—or more scary, with—others.

[Yasmine Khosrowshahi @yasminekho]

This video is a 40-min masterclass by David Lynch on creativity, intuition & ideas.

He reveals:
- How intuition beats intellect
- Why the idea dictates everything
- Why chasing careers mean nothing

12 lessons from Lynch that will change how you think about creativity forever:

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"were habitually deprived of, the idea of existence--and, thanks to this subterfuge, had allowed my being to obtain, to isolate, to immobilize-for the duration of a flash of lightning--the one thing it never apprehends: a bit of time in its pure state." 💙FindingTimeAgain #Proust

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"in the course of my life reality had disappointed me...by virtue of the inevitable law...that one can imagine only what is absent...But now that iron law had suddenly been neutralized,...which had held out the prospect of sensation --sound of a fork 1/3 p 197 #Proust

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"and a hammer,...etc. -- both in the past, which enabled my imagination to enjoy it, and in the present, where the actual shock to my senses of experiencing the sound, the touch of linen, etc., had added to the dreams of the imagination the thing which they 2/3 #Proust