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The Mansion (The Snopes Trilogy, #3)

by William Faulkner

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Jan 06, 2026 08:23AM

“...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist's version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition - otherwise life becomes impossible! Art symbolises the meaning of our existence.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

tags: art, existence, faith, hope

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“Wer einmal sich selbst gefunden, kann nichts auf dieser Welt mehr verlieren.”
― Stefan Zweig

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“The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees.”
― Proust, Marcel

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