The Arts
༓ Poetry ⬩ Paintings 𖦹 Movies ⬩ Photography ༓
imaginative, creative, and nonscientific branches of knowledge considered collectively
“Without music,
life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Twilight of the Idols
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
“The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.”
Hermann Hesse
Der Steppenwolf
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
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Read Invictus
by William Ernest Henley
“There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.”
Hermann Hesse
Demian
“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
Leo Tolstoy
Family Happiness
“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”
Alejandro Jodorowsky
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
George Bernard Shaw
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too
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“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”
George Bernard Shaw
Mrs. Warren's Profession
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book
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Read When you are old
by William Butler Yeats
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
Albert Camus
“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth.”
Albert Camus
“Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.”
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
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Read A Dream Within A Dream
by Edgar Allan Poe
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
Albert Camus
