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“I love your eyes, my darling friend, Their play so passionate and bright'ning, When a sudden stare up you send, And like a heaven-blown lightning, It'd take in all from end to end But there's more that I admire: Your eyes when they're downcast In bursts of love-inspired fire And through the eyelash goes fast A somber, dull call of desire..”
― Stalker: un film de Andreï Tarkovski
― Stalker: un film de Andreï Tarkovski
“To write well, to write passionately, to be less inhibited, to be warmer, to be more self-critical, to recognize the power of as well as the force of lust, to write, to love.”
― The Journals of John Cheever
― The Journals of John Cheever
“In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.”
― Against Interpretation and Other Essays
― Against Interpretation and Other Essays
“For what is a curse but an unfair theft of strength. (Whatever is attempted in the way of improving your position brings back less than the effort exerted.)”
― Ancient Evenings
― Ancient Evenings
“To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”
― Nature
― Nature
Marcel Proust
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Joyce Carol Oates
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This is a group to read and discuss anarchist practice and theory, by gathering a large body of anarchist literature, non-fiction, and theory, as well ...more
Henry James
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A group ready and eager to discuss any or all of Henry James' great works. ...more
Our Shared Shelf
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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
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