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“Remember that all our failures are ultimately failures in love.” ~ Iris Murdoch thanks to @rebeca6169

Steve McQueen in Bavaria, Germany, during the filming of The Great Escape (1963)

Foyles, Charing Cross Road [1936] by Wolfgang Suschitzky

** Un livre rêve. Le livre est le seul objet inanimé qui puisse avoir des rêves ** ~ Ennio Flaiano ~

Herbert List. Sophia Loren, 1961.

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash” Leonard Cohen Photography © Dominique Issermann Hydra Greece 1982

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open. —Natalie Goldberg—

“So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.” ― Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

There is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away; and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak to us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

🌿Ô poésie La première parole après le long silence Le premier feu à prendre au bas du monde mort La lumière redonnée Yves Bonnefoy

By Ellen Brown

"A writer is a world trapped in a person."  Victor Hugo

Engraving by W. Hollidge

“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”—Neil Gaiman

Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance." • C.S. Lewis

🌿Fonder des bibliothèques, c’était encore construire des greniers publics, amasser des réserves contre un hiver de l’esprit qu’à certains signes, malgré moi, je vois venir. Marguerite Yourcenar (Les Mémoires d’Hadrien)

I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. Anais Nin #writing #film #Art The Sandman by Catrin Welz Stein