Friend of the Night

Literature and Art go together like two lovers

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New book review of Franz Kafka's 'The Burrow' for my youtube channel. The book is a great allegory of self isolation and anxiety, classic Kafka stuff in other words.

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“We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.” ― Sir Thomas Browne

Painting: "Early Evening" by Kharlampiy Kostandi

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“Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.” ― Torquato Tasso

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“Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.” ― Edward Young

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“The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.” ― Desiderius Erasmus

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“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.” ― Laurence Sterne

Painting by Kathryn Stats

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Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.” ― John Donne

Painting: "The Mendicant's Dream" by John Harris

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“If a thing loves, it is infinite.” ― William Blake

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“I dream, therefore I exist.” ― August Strindberg

Artist: Yuming Li

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“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” ― T.S. Eliot

Painting: "The Victory" by Rene Magritte

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"What if I went back to sleep for a while, and forgot about all this nonsense?" he thought. ― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

Painting by Nickie Zimov

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“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.” ― Lord Byron

Painting: "Sea Breeze" by Anne Magill

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“Reading brings us unknown friends” ― Honore de Balzac

Painting: part of "Giovanni Giacometti reading by the window" by Cuno Amiet

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“The whole day, the whole night –nothing but the thought of her.” ― E.T.A. Hoffmann

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“everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death” ― Thomas Bernhard

Painting: "Still-Life with a Skull" by Philippe de Champaigne

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“Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?” ― Charles Baudelaire

Painting: "Mother and Son" by Daniel Garber

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“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.” ― Ovid

Painting: detail from "Phryne at the Festival of Poseidon in Eleusis" by Henryk Siemiradzki