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“Kisses, my love, deep ones, to the point of fainting-”
― Letters to Vera
― Letters to Vera
“Hoping for new friendship from old enemies is
Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.”
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Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.”
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“Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction — Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days...”
― All Summer in a Day
― All Summer in a Day
“It is a clear and dazzling summer’s day in Vienna. You are standing in a skewed pentangle of lemony sunshine at the sharp corner of Augustiner Strasse and Augustinerbastei, across from the opera house, indolently watching the world pass by you, waiting for someone or something to catch and hold your attention, to generate a tremor of interest. There’s a curious frisson in the city’s atmosphere today, almost spring-like, though spring is long gone, but you recognize that slight vernal restlessness in the people going by, that stirring of potential in the air, that possibility of audacity – though what audacities they might be, here in Vienna, who can say? Still, your eyes are open, you are unusually poised, ready for anything – any crumb, any flung coin – that the world might casually toss your way.”
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Art, Business, Classics, Historical fiction, Spirituality, Travel, chess, math, law, coffee, magical realism, surrealism, film, psychedelia, Italy, Italian American, sweaters, unreliable narrators, troubled creative geniuses, former gifted children, women's relationships, folktales, fairy tales, ancient belief systems, naturalism, dance, old street communities, gondolas, gargoyles, Russian, mafia, 'Ndrangheta, Istanbul, revolutions in coffeehouses, revolution, French revolution, Camille desmoulins, Antoine de saint exupery, Romani people, accordions, counterculture, mountain villages, fishermen, judaism, unconscious mind, self esteem, spanish inquisition, cannolis, chocolate babkas, ancient Egypt, eve as a historical figure and spiritual symbol, the Rosetta Stone, espresso, history of canals, mandolins, Gabor Szabo, properties of flowers, mayan, and japan
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