Quotes – 2 Oldal – szigetingy

Art Journal Ltd.

At night I sail towards the stars – Art Journal Ltd.

You said that we owe literature almost everything we are and what we have been. If books disappear, history will disappear, and human beings will also disappear. I am sure you are right. Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence. Some people think of reading only as a kind of escape: an escape from the “real” everyday world to an imaginary world, the world of books. Books are much more. They are a way of being fully human. – Susan Sontag (Szigetingy Books)

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Szingy Gallery Budapest

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. – Oscar Wilde

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sometimes i wish i could have had a normal life – artcode319 (andi-art85)

Szingy Street

You came, by chance, into my life of which I was not proud, and from that day something began to change. I have breathed better, I have hated things less. I have admired more freely what deserved admiration. – Albert Camus wrote to Maria Casarès in 1949. (Painting by Johanne Cullen)

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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. (Szigetingy Facebook)

Casablanca (1942)

Rick: Ilsa, I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you’ll understand that. – Casablanca (1942) American film: Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid.