Living and creating are the same ability

Eliseo 2022-04-23 07:05:52

Literature is a master, I am a cat, I only want to sleep at his feet.

Literature is a glass of water, and I am a dried flower. Only when I am immersed in the water will the petals slowly spread out and appear as a flower should look like.

Literature is like an electrified museum. I am a hard, ugly metal. Only by entering that museum can I gain electricity and a soul.

The more you read the classics, the more you feel like you don't need to write, I mean the kind of writing that has a place in time. But at the same time, I feel that I need to write. When I look back at the end of my life, I don't want to see my whole life as empty as a piece of sand.

Everyone desires immortality, but that is not the ultimate goal. If I write, it's just because I want to, and life doesn't seem worth living if I don't.

Camus said: "Life and creation are not two talents, but the same ability. And we are sure that the kind of talent that can only produce superficial works can only support a light life."—— (Camus "Camus Notes 3")

Don't blame yourself for not being able to write immortal works, blame yourself for living a shallow life.

——Written after watching "Genius Catcher 2016".

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  • Margarette 2022-04-02 09:01:17

    The acting skills of the actors are amazing, so the show will not be too boring, otherwise, it will focus on the content of the plot and put people to sleep in minutes.

  • Abe 2022-04-03 09:01:12

    It's too much, everyone is very serious, but that kind of seriousness is just trying my best to write a composition that I am not good at and finally only got 61 points of seriousness

Genius quotes

  • Thomas Wolfe: Who better to talk to? The man who created something immortal. More and more I trouble myself with that. "The legacy." Will anyone care about Thomas Wolfe in 100 years? Ten years? When I was young, I asked myself that question every day.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald: I used to trouble myself like that every day. Now I ask myself, "Can I write one good sentence."

  • [last lines]

    Thomas Wolfe: [Max reading Tom's deathbed letter] Dear Max, I've got a hunch, and I wanted to write these words to you. I've made a long voyage and been to a strange country, and I've seen the dark man very close. And I don't think I was too much afraid of him. But I want most desperately to live. I want to see you again. For there is such an impossible anguish and regret for all I can never say to you, for all the work I have to do. I feel as if a great window has been opened on life. And if I come through this, I hope to God I am a better man and can live up to you. But most of all, I wanted to tell you, no matter what happens, I shall always feel about you the way I did that November day when you met me at the boat and we went on top of the building and all the strangeness and the glory and the power of life were below. Yours always, Tom.