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‘One should never be cured of one’s passions.’ Marguerite Duras, Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein, 1964

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‘I want to write a novel about silence (…); the things people don’t say. But the difficulty is immense.’ - Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out, 1915 | Photo by Ottoline Morrell, 1926

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‘How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.’ Sigmund Freud Letter to fiancée Martha Bernays, June 27 1882 📷 Alan Schaller

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Sous le ciel de Paris …

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‘Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.’ - Camille Pissarro

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‘I dream with my eyes open.’ Jules Verne, Voyage au centre de la terre, 1864 ©️ Guido Kruttgen

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‘Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.’ George Orwell, 1984 (1949) | Ray H. Mercado ©

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‘Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are necessity.’ Anthony Powell

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‘It is your duty in life to save your dream.’ - Amadeo Modigliani Anouk Aimee posing as Jeanne Hébuterne before Modigliani’s painting in the film Montparnasse 19, 1958

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‘I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not?’ Jorge Luis Borges

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‘Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.’ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Vol de Nuit, 1931 📷 Alan Schaller

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‘Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.’ Novalis 📷 Terry O’Neill, Audrey Hepburn With Dove 1966

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‘You must go on, that’s all I know.’ Samuel Beckett, L’Innommable (The Unnamable), 1953

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Waiting for Godot…

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‘I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hate most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.’ Gordon Parks, Department Store, Alabama, 1956

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Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati, 1958)

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‘A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.’ Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe, 1828 📷 New Yersey-based photographer Paola Franqui (Monaris)

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‘If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, And my low spirits would brighten up.’ Anna Akhmatova 📷 Charles Harbutt, Prague, 1971

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‘The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.’ - Isaac Asimov

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‘Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone…’ Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude, 1950 📷 Jan Scholz

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‘Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.’ Niccolò Machiavelli, Il Principe, 1513 (published 1532) 📷 Christophe Jacrot, Paris Under The Rain

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‘That’s what I find so wonderful … The way man adapts himself … To changing conditions.’ Samuel Beckett, Happy Days, Act 1, 1961 📷 Pia Riverola

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Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.’ Václav Havel

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‘If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.’ Federico Fellini 📷 David Dubnitskiy

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‘Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; …’ Francis Bacon, The Essays, 1597

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‘I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, …’ Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum, 1988

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‘It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.’ Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1861

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‘I don’t know where I am going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.’ - David Bowie Anton Corbijn, 1983

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‘To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.’ - John Berger

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‘She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.’ Annie Dillard, The Living, 1992

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‘Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.’ Albert Camus Egon Schiele, Autumn Trees, 1911

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‘How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.’ Annie Dillard, The Writing Life, 1989 📷 Saul Leiter, Early Color (1948-1960)

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‘ … a life spent reading that is a good life.’ Annie Dillard, The Writing Life, 1989

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‘We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion (…) poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.’ Walt Whitman, Leave of Grass, 1855 📷 Dorota Górecka

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‘My advice is, don’t spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record shop.’ - Wim Wenders Ph. Haruki Murakami

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‘True art lies in a reality that is felt.’ - Odilon Redon

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‘Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.’ Simone Weil, La pésanteur et la grâce (Gravity and Grace), 1947 © Kai Ziehl

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‘If truth could ever be spoken again, language needed to be taken apart and reconstitute.’ Paul Celan Laura Makabresku

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‘I don’t speak to anyone for a week. I just sit on a stone by the sea. The whole time I was hoping my silence would fit yours and exclamation marks would gently float across time …’ Anna Akhmatova Léon Spilliaert, La baigneuse, 1910

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‘There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.’ Leonora Carrington 📷 Kati Horna

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‘Tied to one another by the bonds of the earth, by intelligence, heart and flesh, nothing I know, can surprise or separate us.’ Albert Camus, Letter to Maria Casarès, February 1950

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‘So many books. So little time.’ - Frank Zappa

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‘Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.’ — Erich Fromm — The Art of Loving, 1956

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‘O, can I really belief the poets’s tales, that when one first sees the object of one’s love, one imagines one has seen her long ago, …’ The Journals of Soren Kierkegaard, on Regine Olsen, 2-2 1839 📷 David Dubnitskiy

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‘Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.’ Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets Jamie Heiden

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‘... I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teach myself to live again... - Anna Akhmatova, The Verdict

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‘How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things ...’ Virginia Woolf, The Waves,1931

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‘I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.’ Simone de Beauvoir, Letters to Sartre, (published 1990)

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‘And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.’ - Ezra Pound

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‘My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.’ Claude Monet

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The rain fell vehemently, or not at all.’ Virginia Woolf, Orlando, 1928 Josef Sudek, The Window of My Studio, series 1941-54

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‘After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.’ Aldous Huxley, The Rest is Silence, Music at Night and Other Essays, 1931

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‘Silence can be like a hand extended.’ - John Berger © Tony Nahra

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‘Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.’ - Edgar Degas: painter, sculptor and even ‘photographer’ Danseuse, c. 1880 - photo

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‘I exist in two places, here and where you are.’ - Margaret Atwood, Corpse Song (poem) | Henri Prestes ©

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‘The purpose of poetry is to return that which is familiar to its original strangeness.’ Charles Simic Brassaï, Pigeon sur le Stryge, Notre-Dame de Paris, 1930

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‘When someone you love dies (…) you lose her in pieces over a long time.(…) Just when the day comes (…) with the feeling that she’s gone, forever - there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.’ John Irving , A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989 ©️ Monica Merlo

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‘All things appear to us in the shape of forms.’ Pablo Picasso 📷 Brassaï, 1960

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‘For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.’ Krzysztof Kieslowski 📷 Kees Scherer

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‘You get on a train, you disappear. You write your name on the window, you disappear. There are places like this everywhere, places you enter as a young girl, from which you never return.’ Louise Glück, Averno © Ryan Razon

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‘We do not have too much intellect and too much soul, but too little interest in matters of the soul.’ Robert Musil, Das Hilfloze Europa, 1922 📷 Maud Longeval, Paris

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‘Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.’ - Dorothy Parker Parker in New York City, 1924

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‘Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.’ Sylvia Plath, Draft of a letter to Richard Sassoon, 1955 📷 Inox Lord

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‘The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.’ Jeanne Moreau Young Moreau in Paris, 1949

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‘The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.’ Nikos Kazantzákis

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‘There is no love that is not an echo.’ Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 1951 📷 Ralph Steiner, 1921

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‘Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate.’ Honoré de Balzac, Physiology of Marriage, 1828

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‘Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.’ - Carlos Ruiz Záfon, The Shadow of the Wind, 2001 Stanley Kubrick, Student at Columbia University, 1948

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‘Read a lot of stories, listen to a lot of music, and think of what the stories you encounter mean for your own life …’ Martha Nussbaum, Letter from: Take My Advice, 2002 (ed. James Harmon) Niall Mcdiarmid, South bank London, 2011

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‘I love the autumn - that melancholy season that suits memories so well.’ Gustave Flaubert, Novembre, 1842 John Atkinson Grimshaw, Autumn Regrets, 1882

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Jacqueline Du Pré plays Elgar Cello Concerte

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‘A line is a dot that went for a walk.’ - Paul Klee Früchte auf Rot (oder das Schweißtuch des Geigers)

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‘A loving heart is the truest wisdom.’ Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1850 📷 Julia Hetta

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‘Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not a truth.’ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, AD 161-180 Ferdinando Scianna

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‘I don’t know if I am unhappy because I’m not free, or if I’m not free because I’m unhappy.’ Jean Seberg in À bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)

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‘Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T.S. Eliot, The Rock, 1934 Audrey Hepburn

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‘Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail …’ - Camille Pissarro Letter to his son Lucien | Pissarro in his studio inÉragny, c. 1890

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‘I have always liked people who can’t adept themselves to life pragmatically.’ André Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time, 1984 | The Mirror, 1975

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‘For a photograph to be good it must have balance, form and substance. But to be very good it must also have indefinable magic.’ Elliott Erwitt

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‘In spite of death, he felt the need for life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, …’ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, 1877 Yevgeny Khaldei, Neva River, Leningrad (St. Petersburg), 1950

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‘I always forget how important the empty days are. …’ The Journals of May Sarton, Vol. I, Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering, 1973 📷 Man Ray, Lee Miller, Juan les Pins France 1930

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‘But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.’ Albert Camus, La Chute (The Fall), 1956 Katja Lang, Way home

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‘To be alive at all is to have scars.’ - John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent, 1961

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‘All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.’ - Alfred Stieglitz Portrait Georgia O’Keeffe, 1917

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‘Every word has consequences. Every silence too.’ ‘Chaque parole a des retentissements. Chaque silence aussi.’ Jean-Paul Sartre, Les Temps Modernes, 1945

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‘Always continue walking a lot and loving nature, that’s the real way to learn to understand art better and better.’ Vincent van Gogh, Letter to his brother Theo, 1874 Perenboompje, Arles, 1888 - Van Gogh Museum

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‘I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.’ Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

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‘Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.’ Philip Roth, American Pastoral, 1997 📷 Arie Azene

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‘We live in the void of metamorphoses.’ Anna Karina in Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)

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‘Works of art are of an infinite solitude …’ Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet posthumously published by Franz Xaver Kappus, 1929 Willem de Kooning

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‘It’s been so lonely without you here Like a bird without a song …’ 🎵

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‘Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place.’ Jacqueline Du Pré

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‘To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.’ Louise Bourgeois

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‘You cannot save people, you can only love them.’ - The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-39, Vol. 2 | Soichi Sunami, c. 1942

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‘We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.’ - Yves Saint Laurent

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‘A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life …’ - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Edward Hopper, Room in New York, 1932 (detail)

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