#literature

Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world. ↗

— Pierre Janet

#imagination #literature #mind #surrealism #writing

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#hungarian #literature #lyric #poetry #wonderful

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#basketball #because #good #good student #happy

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#literature #tidings #within #without #world

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#effect #literature #once #progress #social

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#experience #literature #personal #personal experience #real

I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#columbia #ended #films #i #literature

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms. ↗

— Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

#during #endeavoured #evolution #evolutionary #half

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny. ↗

— Ma Jian

#i #i believe #i believe that #literature #power

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#country #death #dictator #eyes #freedom