“If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. ”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
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“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
―The Fellowship of the Ring
―The Fellowship of the Ring
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James Baldwin
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Born : August 2, 1924
Died : December 1, 1987
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Baldwin
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Born : August 2, 1924
Died : December 1, 1987
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Baldwin
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”
“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ”
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
“You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.”
― Giovanni's Room
― Giovanni's Room
“People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.”
― Another Country
― Another Country
“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
Virginia Woolf
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Born : January 25, 1882
Died : March 28, 1941
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Virginia Stephen determined in 1908 to “re-form” the novel by creating a holistic form embracing aspects of life that were “fugitive” from the Victorian novel. While writing anonymous reviews for the Times Literary Supplement and other journals, she experimented with such a novel, which she called Melymbrosia. In November 1910, Roger Fry, a new friend of the Bells, launched the exhibit “Manet and the Post-Impressionists,” which introduced radical European art to the London bourgeoisie. Virginia was at once outraged over the attention that painting garnered and intrigued by the possibility of borrowing from the likes of artists Paul Cézanne and Pablo Picasso.
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Born : January 25, 1882
Died : March 28, 1941
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Virginia Stephen determined in 1908 to “re-form” the novel by creating a holistic form embracing aspects of life that were “fugitive” from the Victorian novel. While writing anonymous reviews for the Times Literary Supplement and other journals, she experimented with such a novel, which she called Melymbrosia. In November 1910, Roger Fry, a new friend of the Bells, launched the exhibit “Manet and the Post-Impressionists,” which introduced radical European art to the London bourgeoisie. Virginia was at once outraged over the attention that painting garnered and intrigued by the possibility of borrowing from the likes of artists Paul Cézanne and Pablo Picasso.
"I belong to quick, futile movements of intense feelings. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people."
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“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
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“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― A Room of One's Own
― A Room of One's Own