"It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract."

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Source : Nicola Chiaromonte (1985). “The paradox of history: Stendhal, Tolstoy, Pasternak, and others”, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

Nicola Chiaromonte

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“I think so much of the look, obviously including wardrobe, but the hair is a huge thing because it's basically the frame for your eyes and that's the window to your soul is what they say.”

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“And as we drift into sleep, I feel something Iâ€™ve never felt before. A closeness that isnâ€™t merely physical. A connection that defies the fact that weâ€™ve only just met. A sensation that can only come from the most euphoric of feelings: belonging.”
“Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.”
“Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world.”
“One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.”
“I used to build dreams about you.”
“Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.”
“Canvases between 8 centimetres and 1 metre are priced around 25,000 francs. In the past I used to sell them from between 50 to 100 francs at the most. I have to say... that I feel somewhat embarrassed at this admission.”

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