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Luckily for art, life is difficult, hard to understand and mysterious.

A meditation on: The value of ‘useful ignorance’. The difference between writers and critics is that in order to function in their trade, writers must live in the world, and critics, to survive in the world, must live in literature. … Continue reading

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work life balance

Something is always born of excess,”Anaïs Nin wrote in her diary in June of 1945 as she contemplated the value of emotional excess, adding: “Great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances … Continue reading

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The Experience of Being Alive

   Does what goes on inside show on the outside?,” young Vincent van Gogh despaired in a moving letter to his brotherwhile floundering to find his purpose.  “Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves … Continue reading

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