!Fear

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.

Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can,

paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Pa!nters

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. (Pablo Picasso)

!nspiration

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

!magination

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

About F!ction

Nostalgic Postmodernism – The Victorian Tradition and the Contemporary British Novel – Christian Gutleben

The World that is the Book – Paul Auster’s Fiction – Aliki Varvogli

Metafiction – The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction – Patricia Waugh

Negotiating Sexual Idioms – Marie Luise Kohlke (Sexsation and the Neo-Victorian Novel)

!Books

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends,

They are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors,

And the most patient of teachers.

!mpulse

I don’t believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don’t judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

Meet!ng

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

(Carl Jung)

Creat!on

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

(Carl Jung)

!The abyss

He who fights with monsters

might take care lest he thereby become a monster.

And if you gaze for long into an abyss,

the abyss gazes also into you.