For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and loneliness, an all-encompassing distaste for which he could not find the complementary inclination. He felt at times as though he had been born with a talent for which there was at present no objective.
Robert MusilMots clés philosophy literature genius
Did you think of anything when Miss Marcy said Scoatney Hall was being re-opened? I thought of the beginning of Pride and Prejudice – where Mrs. Bennet says 'Netherfield Park is let a last.' And then Mr. Bennet goes over to call on the rich new owner.
Dodie SmithMots clés literature jane-austen pride-and-prejudice
I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they will hear the laughter of the children they gave life, I will know the torments of the song born under knife.
Roman PayneMots clés art writers literature creativity creation artists
As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.
Ross WetzsteonMots clés literature movement
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.
Muriel BarberyMots clés words reading books literature language
Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time.
Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!
Mots clés libraries writing writers work literature creativity literary research lifestyle studying ibiza literary-life nightclubs partying writing-style
Stranger, pause and look;
From the dust of ages
Lift this little book,
Turn the tattered pages,
Read me, do not let me die!
Search the fading letters finding
Steadfast in the broken binding
All that once was I!
Mots clés words reading books poetry literature
Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.
Romain GaryMots clés literature
It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.
Naomi Shihab NyeMots clés words reading books literature
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
Rachel CarsonMots clés science truth purpose history literature discovery aim biography literature-of-science
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