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“Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
Virginia Woolf
Manuscript of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway.
Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway was published 87 years ago. Download the book here: http://goo.gl/Zq0uz.
“We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.”
Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne would be 479 years old today!
He was one of the most influential writers of the french renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre and is popularly thought of as the father of modern skepticism. He became famous for his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual speculation with casual anecdotes and autobiography—and his massive volume Essais (translated literally as “Attempts”) contains, to this day, some of the most widely influential essays ever written. Montaigne had a direct influence on writers the world over, including René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Stefan Zweig, Eric Hoffer, Isaac Asimov, and perhaps William Shakespeare… (more)
“Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn human beings.”
Heinrich Heine, who passed away 156 years ago… (more)
“A man and a woman truly in love is the only spectacle of this world worthy of being offered to the gods.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
Michel de Montaigne
Alexander Pushkin, the greatest russian poet and the founder of modern russian literature, passed away 175 years ago… (more)
“Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve.”
Jules Verne
Jules Verne, the father of science fiction, would be 188 years old today.
He was a french author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the second most translated author in the world (after Agatha Christie). Some of his books have also been made into live-action and animated films and television shows… (more)
“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”
Charles Dickens
