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“Today our unsophisticated cameras record in their own way our hastily assembled and painted world.”
― Invitation to a Beheading
― Invitation to a Beheading
“Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion.”
― On Writing
― On Writing
“I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream!”
― Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Vol. 01
― Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Vol. 01
“You know how when something really touches you, it feels like burning, a burning inside.”
― The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
― The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
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