Quotations

“Try to be one of those people on whom nothing is lost.” - Henry James

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.” - Joan Didion, The White Album

Artists are “people whose work it is to make something out of nothing.” - Joan Didion

“I know what the fear is.
The fear is not for what is lost.
What is lost is already in the wall.
What is lost is already behind the locked doors.
The fear is for what is still to be lost.” - Joan Didion, Blue Nights

“The secret to not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas.” -Eugene Delacroix

“Our dreams are our real life.” - Federico Fellini

“Immortality is to labor at an eternal task.” - Ernest Renan

“Man makes holy what he believes and he makes beautiful what he loves.” - Ernest Renan

“This looking and not seeing was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.” - Ernest Hemingway, True at First Light

“Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him the longing for happiness and for reasons. The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.” -Albert Camus

“Those who write clearly have readers. Those whos write obscurely have commentators.” - Albert Camus