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“Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound. If it were we should have no interest in the art of the past, except as history or documentary. But our interest in art is our interest in ourselves both now and always. Here and forever. There is a sense of the human spirit as always existing. This makes our death bearable. Life + art is a boisterous communion/communication with the dead. It is a boxing match with time.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Ah, what stars there are in the Ukraine. I’ve been living in Moscow almost seven years, but I still feel drawn to my homeland. My heart aches, I get a terrible urge to board a train and be off. To see the cliffs covered in”
― A Country Doctor's Notebook
― A Country Doctor's Notebook
“...sentivo bensì un po' di vergogna in termini generali, perché quella si sente sempre, e in particolare alla fine di una guerra in cui non si è nemmeno morti.”
― I piccoli maestri
― I piccoli maestri
“Was life, were human relations like this always, Therese wondered. Never solid ground underfoot. Always like gravel, a little yielding, noisy so the whole world could hear, so one always listened, too, for the loud, harsh step of the intruder's foot.”
― The Price of Salt
― The Price of Salt
“Among the many thousands of things that I have never been able to understand, one in particular stands out. That is the question of who was the first person who stood by a pile of sand and said, “You know, I bet if we took some of this and mixed it with a little potash and heated it, we could make a material that would be solid and yet transparent. We could call it glass.” Call me obtuse, but you could stand me on a beach till the end of time and never would it occur to me to try to make it into windows.”
― Notes from a Small Island
― Notes from a Small Island
Reading Challenges
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This group is designed specificallly to record your personal challenges. We are not challenging you; you challenge yourself and follow your own readin ...more
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