Ella Jefferies
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Ella Jefferies
duality of the human psyche, particularly in manifestations of "good" and "evil
Helen Garner
themes
My initial reason for writing is that I need to shape things so I can make them bearable or comprehensible to myself. It's my way of making sense of things that I've lived and seen other people live, things that I'm afraid of, or that I long for"
Helen Garner
Garner said, in 1985, that writing novels was like "trying to make a patchwork quilt look seamless. A novel is made up of scraps of our own lives and bits of other people's, and things we think of in the middle of the night and whole notebooks full of randomly collected details".
Helen Garner
Know that you might be looking for something that doesn’t feel like an issue — it might just feel like sadness or anger , like the sadness of not being seen, or the frustration of not feeling like your work is meaningful. Once you’ve surfaced something, ask yourself: Have I done my best to come up with a set of potential solutions, using all the... See more
Cate Hall • Maybe You’re Not Actually Trying
I never have really tried to actually give art a go, because I’ve always been too scared of failing and not able to deal with my expectations of perfection not being met.
Stepping towards this would bring on a whole other string of issues, like when the clown pull out the handkerchief, and then it just keeps going and going.
Im noticing that when each year passes, the feeling of deep regret is incrementally inflating inside my stomach - slowly spreading like a noxious gas that might take over my whole body and eventually ill retch the creativity out of me. The source of this regret is the idea that I could go my whole life without actualising any of my creative endeavours with my full, unrestrained devotion.
And what hurts even more is that I go on living my life in denial of what I actually want to pursue all because of something as trivial as the internalised fear of failing.
A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, that illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters.[1] A parable is a type of metaphorical analogy.[2]
Parable
Indeed, Wilde liked to say that one should live as a Spartan but speak like an Athenian. By which he meant that one should seek to live a simple and disciplined existence, but to speak and create with an eye towards beauty and culture.
Oscar Wilde on Writing
Beautiful and enchanting, she was frequently depicted nude, as a symmetrically perfect maiden, infinitely desirable and as infinitely out of reach. She was sometimes represented alongside Eros and with some of her major attributes and symbols: a magical girdle and a shell, a dove or a sparrow, roses, and myrtles.
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Aphrodite
Aphrodite protected him and appointed Persephone to raise him. Adonis grew into an astonishingly beautiful young man, causing Persephone to fell in love with him too. Persephone refused to give Adonis back to Aphrodite; this led to a dispute that was solved by Zeus . As a result, Adonis would spend a third of a year with each goddess, and one third... See more
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a love triangle?