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“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
“It would seem that mythological worlds have been built up only to be shattered again, and that new worlds were built from the fragments.”
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“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
“With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.”
― Jakob von Gunten
― Jakob von Gunten
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