A Man of Prose

World Literature, Film, Romance and Pleasure "Nobody really knows or understands and nobody has ever said the secret. The secret is that it is poetry written into prose and it is the hardest of all things to do."Ernest Hemingway"

[les-fleur]

Vampyr (1932, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)

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Finally finding the light to stand in.

[stillgotscars]

Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

[toiich]

La frontière de l'aube (2008), dir. Philippe Garrel

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"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

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Charles Baudelaire, from a letter to Caroline Aupick featured in The Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire

[thebookquotes]

Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning.

— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

[manofprose]

[petaltexturedskies]

Albert Camus, The Complete Notebooks

[shisasan]

In the deepening spring of May, I had no choice but to recognize the trembling of my heart.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood [originally published 1987]

[theoptia]

Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959; May 13th, 1959

[manofprose]

[lesdiscretts]

[iamokayvallabakxv]

[manofprose]

“Goodnight my kitten.”

— Ernest Hemingway to his wife before committing suicide.  

[threespringspoet]

Demanded nothing, Poem: Ms. Jolly, Monday through Friday

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