February 2010
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“Mr. Joyce has desophisticated language. And it is worth while remarking that no...”
– Samuel Beckett on James Joyce in his essay, “Dante … Bruno . Vico . . Joyce”
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“How nice it is to be able to verify with one’s own eyes the success of our...”
– Tchaikovsky in a letter to Nadezhda von Meck, 19/31 May 1886, from Paris, from the great Tchaikovsky Research. (via fuckyeahrussianliterature)
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“Countless lives inhabit us.
I don’t know, when I think or feel,
Who it is that...”
– Fernando Pessoa (via billyjane)
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“O earthenware life. O dying of an age.
I am afraid no one will understand you...”
– “O glinyanya zhizn …”, Osip Mandelstam. Poems 1928.
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