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Thoughts and reflections on books

Thoughts and reflections on books by great authors, meditations, ideas and literary observations about books, the art of writing novels, poetry and essays. Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should …

The old man

The Old Man a short story by the English novelist and playwright Daphne Du Maurier. Well known for Hitchcock film the Birds, another of her short stories. Imagination is a form of …

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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist... Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
Stephen Hawking

Life is, in fact, a struggle. On this point pessimists and optimists agree. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty is beautiful, but rare; goodness is often apt to be weak, folly to be arrogant, and wickedness to prevail; fools in the places of honor and the best aloof; and humanity, as a whole, unhappy.
Henry James

As far as the development of human happiness is concerned I would say that egoism is the higher form of stupid ignorance that prevents it.
Carl William Brown