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21. the HISTORY of LOVE
Nicole Krauss 2005
A complex, inventive and intelligent story told in alternating format, each distinct from the other. It is about Leopold Gursky, an old man coming to terms with his death, while maintaining his everlasting longing for his old love. It is the story of Alma, a young inquisitive girl who set out looking for somebody that her Mother can love after her father died. And it is the story of a book called the History of Love.
"When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, LEO GURSKY IS SURVIVED BY AN APARTMENT FULL OF SHIT. I'm surprised I haven't been buried alive."
"She read and read. When she finished she looked up. For a long time she didn't speak. Then she said maybe I shouldn't make up everything, because that made it hard to believe anything."
"And if a man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long as he lived kept his promise, it wasn't because he was stubborn or even loyal. He couldn't help it."
"I want to say somewhere:I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside and I invited it in. I scowled at the world. And the world scowled back."
"WORDS FOR EVERYTHING."
"MY MOTHER NEVER FELL OUT OF LOVE WITH MY FATHER. She's kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to this, she's turned life away. Sometimes she subsists on water and air."
"The idea of evolution is so beutiful and sad. Since the earliest life on earth, there have been somewhere between five and fifty billion species, only five to fifty million of which are alive today. So,ninety-nine percent of all species that have ever lived on earth are extinct."
"Staring out the window, Litvinoff imagined the two thousand copies of The History of Love as a flock of two thousand homing pigeons that could flap their wings and return to him to report on how many tears shed, how many laughs, how many passages read aloud, how many cruel closings of the cover after reading barely a page, how many have never opened it at all."
"The first language humans had was gestures. There was nothing primitive about this language that flowed from people's hands, nothing we say now that could not be said in the endless array of movements possible with the fine bones of the fingers and wrists. The gestures were complex and subtle, involving a delicacy of motion that has since been lost completely."
"So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past:IwasbeautifulgirlPleasedon'tgoItoobelievemybod
yismadeofglassI'veneverlovedanyoneIthinkofmyselfasfunnyForgiveme..."
"MEMORIES PASSED DOWN FROM MY MOTHER...Finding sand in the pockets of her clothes... Rain... My father ... Thousands of pages."
Personal note:The second of five books I picked up from Montreal,Canada; there were so many more to quote but they would give the story away.
Edvard Munch is best known as being a Norwegian born, expressionist painter, and printer. In the late 20th century, he played a great role in German expressionism, and the art form that later followed; namely because of the strong mental anguish that was displayed in many of the pieces that he created.
Edvard Munch was born in Norway in 1863, and was raised in Christiania (known as Oslo today). He was related to famous painters and artists in their own right, Jacob Munch (painter), and Peter Munch (historian). Only a few years after he was born, Edvard Munch's mother diet of tuberculosis in 1868, and he was raised by his father. Edvard's father suffered of mental illness, and this played a role in the way he and his siblings were raised. Their father raised them impounding fears of hell, and other deep seated issues, which is part of the reason why the work of Edvard Munch took a deeper tone, and why the artist was known to have so many repressed emotions as he grew up.
In 1885, Edvard Munch traveled to Paris, and was extremely influenced by the artists, and the pieces which he noted while visiting. This is noted in the impressionism, followed by the post-impressionism work which he created, at earlier phases of his career. In fact, the main style of Munch's work is post-impressionism, and focused on this style.
Much of the work which Edvard Munch created, was referred to as the style known as symbolism. This is mainly because of the fact that the pieces which he created, and the paintings he made, focused on the internal view of the objects, as opposed to the exterior, and what the eye could see. He would design many of his pieces around the way he felt, or the emotions he was repressing, which caused his work to showcase inward feeling, and more of a personal sense of art, as opposed to the external view, and the way everyone else would see the piece which he was portraying in any piece that he was designing.
A majority of the work which Edvard Munch, does showcase emotion, more often than not, and more so than any true external view of the images which he was creating. Much of his work depicts life and death scenes, love and terror, and the feeling of loneliness was often a feeling which viewers would note that his work patterns focused on. These emotions were depicted by the contrasting lines, the darker colors, blocks of color, somber tones, and a concise and exaggerated form, which depicted the darker side of the art which he was designing. These tones and shadows were used, to depict the emotions the images were feeling, which seemed to come from the deep seated feelings which Edvard Munch tended to keep in, when he was painting, and creating any art form that he worked on. It was also noted that the style in which Munch painted, was a prelude to the German expressionism movement, and the dark pieces that would come out of this period as well.
From about 1892, to 1908, Munch split most of his time in Paris and in Berlin; it was in 1909 which he decided to return to his hometown, and go back to Norway. During this period, much of the work that was created by Edvard Munch depicted his interest in nature, and it was also noted that the tones and colors that he used in these pieces, did add more color, and seemed a bit more cheerful, than most of the previous works he had created in years past. The pessimistic under toning which was quite prominent in much of his earlier works, had faded quite a bit, and it seems he took more of a colorful, playful, and fun tone with the pieces that he was creating, as opposed to the dark and somber style which he tended to work with earlier on during the course of his career. From this period, up to his death, Edvard Munch remained in Norway, and much of his work that was created from this period on, seemed to take on the similar, colorful approach which he had adopted, since returning home in 1909.
Edvard Munch passed away in 1944, in a small town which was just outside of his home town in Oslo. Upon his death, the works which he had created, were not given to family, but they were instead donated to the Norwegian government, and were placed in museums, in shows, and in various local public buildings in Norway. In fact, after his death, more than 1000 paintings which Edvard Munch had created were donated to the government. In addition to the paintings that he had created during the course of his career, all other art forms he created were also donated to the government. A total of 15,400 prints were donated, 4500 drawings and water color art was donated, and six sculptures which Edvard Munch had created, were all turned over to the Oslo government, and were used as display pieces in many locations.
Due to the fact that all of this work which Edvard Munch had created, was donated to the Norwegian government, the country decided to build the Munch Museum of Art. This was done to commemorate his work, his life, and the generosity which he showed, in passing his art work over to the government, so that it could be enjoyed by the general public, rather than be kept locked up by the family. Although the art which he did donate, was spread throughout a number of museums and art exhibits, a majority of them were kept in Oslo. And, most of the works which were donated by Munch, were placed in the Munch Museum of Art, to commemorate the work he did, as well as the unique style, and the distinct movements which he introduced to the world, through the creations which he had crafted.
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Love Quotes
by STEPHEN on JULY 6, 2011 · 92 COMMENTS
in INSPIRATIONAL STORIES
“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”
“Every man is afraid of something. That’s how you know he’s in love with you; when he is afraid of losing you.”
“Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.”
“The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.”
William Somerset Maugham
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
Judy Garland
“One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else.”
“If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.”
“Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.”
“It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone – but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.”
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
“It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.”
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{ 92 comments… read them below or add one }
1.Bethany — July 13, 2011 at 2:11 am
The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
2.Sanjog — July 14, 2011 at 10:20 pm
Forgetting myself and getting myself on someone’s heart is love.
3.Baldev — July 29, 2011 at 9:41 am
Love is nothing but that little pain you feel in your heart every night while you think of her before sleeping till tears roll on the pillow you wish to hug.
4.MAHALAKSHMI — August 20, 2011 at 7:47 am
” If you Love me, I’ll be in your HEART ; If you hate me, I’ll be in your MIND. Both are in my Favour.
5.Rajneet Kaur — September 3, 2011 at 3:54 am
Love is a sweet and a precious feeling that can be felt only rather to describe it in words
6.Ishita Roy Bardhan — September 6, 2011 at 9:51 am
U r all i have wanted
U r all i need……
U r all i have dreamed of..
U r all of that to me…..
and now u have shown me how 2 love…….
since then my love for u will never cease to grow…..
please take me in ur loving arms and never let me Go !!!
7.Ishita Roy Bardhan — September 6, 2011 at 9:54 am
love starts as an insignificant seed——
a sweet smile
a playful giggle
a rosy blush
a small fire
a pleasant look
a heart emptied with worldly feelings……. !!!!
8.Chilkoti — September 7, 2011 at 1:47 am
Very nice …
9.Kiran — September 26, 2011 at 8:42 am
People whom we love so much leaves us.
10.Vamsi Krishna — October 1, 2011 at 7:24 am
The relationship between two hearts can be called as LOVE.
11.Jee-an — October 6, 2011 at 4:25 am
When you love someone, make sure that you don’t lose yourself in the process..,
12.Afeisha — October 25, 2011 at 9:22 am
Love is not a feeling, love is a ACT. Time embraced love by the ACT of stopping to accommodate Love.
13.Kayla — October 31, 2011 at 5:12 pm
I can’t promise you perfection, but what I can promise is that as long as we’re trying, I’m staying.
14.Mhay — November 1, 2011 at 2:07 am
“Thank you for being you when you are with me.. I miss all the things we do.”
15.Prachi — November 25, 2011 at 9:10 am
Love is when you loose yourself, when you feel the world is empty without him, when you start feeling you have been stolen…. FOREVER
16.Sumit — December 1, 2011 at 12:01 am
If you can define love.. that is not love… Have good time!
17.Maria — December 6, 2011 at 2:23 pm
…the definition of love always depends on the person who experience it…
18.Deepa Sharma — December 10, 2011 at 5:19 am
Love is a wonderful feeling ……… only some people can feel it.. Like me I love someone else … almost I can do everything for my love.
19.Dev — December 18, 2011 at 12:29 pm
“If you don’t want pain in your life, don’t love anyone.”
20.Devilic — December 26, 2011 at 6:21 am
..life’s not just waiting for someone who is made for u ..
rather it’s living for someone who lives b’coz of u .. <3
21.Ofhyque — January 4, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Love is sacred thing from God, so every person must treasure it. Give importance in everything we have.
22.Rahul RBR — January 10, 2012 at 12:59 am
Love is a compromise, compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
23.Tina — January 18, 2012 at 10:42 am
You rock the world… I am loving it.
24.Dioman — January 26, 2012 at 10:10 am
In my opinion, GOD has the most genuine love…
25.Vaishali — January 28, 2012 at 1:32 am
A girl should CARE for her guy like a CHILD & A guy should RESPECT his girl like his MOM becoz NO guy can HURT MOM & NO girl can love someone more than her CHILD.
26.Chima — February 3, 2012 at 1:59 am
For you to be loved you must love somone only then can love b returned to you
27.Ekaette — February 3, 2012 at 4:50 am
I love that if you don’t want pains in your heart, don’t love anyone ’til you find your perfect partner.
28.Neel — February 3, 2012 at 5:25 am
Love doesn’t understand any language.
29.Neel — February 3, 2012 at 5:27 am
Love can’t be expressed, it can only be felt.
30.Thanu — February 3, 2012 at 6:49 am
Love is wonderfull feelings that don’t want to hurt someone & have feeling to live together selfishness……
31.Ify — February 3, 2012 at 8:09 am
Love brings you to your kness no matter your level or position.
True love warms the heart and make you smile.
32.Mannu — February 4, 2012 at 1:12 pm
You should not love the person by his/her money or its look or by its personality. You should love the person with all your heart.
33.Mannu — February 4, 2012 at 1:13 pm
Do u love someone then express it to the person otherwise u will regret it throughout your life
34.sunny sriram — February 5, 2012 at 12:29 am
” If you Love me, I’ll be in your HEART ; If you hate
me, I’ll be in your MIND. Both are in my Favour.
35.Billu — February 14, 2012 at 3:12 am
I close my eyes when I say your name, but the pain in my heart is still the same, although I smile and seem carefree though no one who missed you more than me!… I LOVE YUO SWEETY!
36.UTHIRASAMY — February 29, 2012 at 1:58 am
All quotes are superb
37.Dazz — March 23, 2012 at 5:01 pm
The persone we love the most, why she/he gives us so much pain…
38.Moiz — April 4, 2012 at 2:50 am
Love is more important than money so we should love a reliable person.
39.Joey — April 8, 2012 at 5:19 am
The greatest power on earth is the power of love and that power is yours when you do everything with love.
40.Lito Sanchez — April 10, 2012 at 6:49 pm
There is much more important than life and that is love, for life, love is the reason. It gives us meaning to our existence, without love, life is less in everything. So let us not define what love is and know what it takes… it is better to love and be hurt and fail than never have love at all… just love and live… God has a purpose!
41.Shashi :-) — April 16, 2012 at 1:59 am
All quotes are fabulous and even all your comments are helpful, leave some more!
42.OnixMervin — April 17, 2012 at 9:59 am
Love is the GREATEST! It feels so good to love and be loved.
43.Solomon Onokere — April 18, 2012 at 3:23 am
U need love to maintain ur relationship, bt understanding to maintain love.
44.Solomon Onokere — April 18, 2012 at 3:26 am
U need love to maintain ur relationship, bt understanding to maintain love. Love is like a seed dat must be nutured with understanding.
45.Fafa — April 18, 2012 at 3:31 am
Never leave the one you love, for the one you like, because the one you like will leave you for the one they love.
46.Fafa — April 18, 2012 at 3:33 am
If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn’t have fallen for the second.
47.Fafa — April 18, 2012 at 3:35 am
True love is when you read every quote and certain person pops out from your mind.
48.Sankar — April 22, 2012 at 2:26 am
“A person who doesn’t love himself/herself never can love others.”
So, try adore yourself before loving others!!!
49.Miluv — April 25, 2012 at 5:44 pm
Love is a feeling you feel when you feel a feeling you have never felt before…..
50.Ayodeji Obiz — April 28, 2012 at 12:05 pm
Nice one. To me, love is when you never know you are in love. Because if you do, you start hurting yourself.
51.Phen12 — May 11, 2012 at 1:28 am
Love requires a sacrifice to prove that it’s true. And sacrifice often leads to pain. So love a person when you are ready to be hurt ^^ But the greatest image of love is through the Cross, when JESUS died to save us. Godbless.
52.Lerato — June 22, 2012 at 5:42 pm
God is love and love is God. So love God, love yourself and only then can you love others.
53.Lerato — June 22, 2012 at 5:44 pm
If you want to know what love is, observe children. They love and forgive unconditionally without expecting anything in return.
54.TingTing — July 11, 2012 at 9:48 am
LOVE is not finding someone u can live with …. instead finding someone you can’t live Without ..!! ….. .. :)
55.MuDbLoOd — August 2, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Love is when you make yourself crazy and you intend to deliver a baby……….hehehehe…..LET”S LOVE EACH OTHER…..
56.Jimmy Chen — August 21, 2012 at 6:51 am
Love is ….
every feeling in the world
once you love someone, you start having different types of emotions
You would feel happy yet worried, loved or jealous, you get all mixed emotions and you start freaking out and that ruins the relantionship
so my advice… relax and think calmly before you d anything silly :)
57.Abigail Rowley — August 24, 2012 at 2:31 am
Don’t fear the one you love because they’re not like the others you can’t love in fear of being hurt.
58.Jade — August 26, 2012 at 2:20 am
IT IS HARD to care a person you know that one more step forward can make you fall inlove and one step back can ruin your friendship.
59.Jade — August 26, 2012 at 2:23 am
The hardest part of loving is when you fall in love to someone you didn’t meant to fall inlove from the very start.
60.logesh — August 28, 2012 at 11:43 am
Love is like a crisp. It will give sound when it is not broken but after that it will become soundless and tasteless.
61.Matena — September 17, 2012 at 4:28 am
Don’t be fooled when someone tells you they like you. The real question is, UNTIL WHEN?
62.Chibuzo — October 2, 2012 at 12:03 am
When you don’t have any reason why you love him or her then that is love cos love is the ultimate, love is the greatest.
63.Premalatha Quintin — October 3, 2012 at 3:39 am
Love is a wonderful pain, that every man has to feel it!
64.Roldens Paulynice — October 4, 2012 at 3:34 pm
“Sometimes we do some crazy stuff when we love someone, but that doesn’t mean that we are stupid. Love simply makes us blind, and we are unable to follow what we want. However, our hearts and our souls choose to follow what they want while our bodies are unable to resist or to control this feeling. Sometimes, even though the one that our hearts and our souls want hurts us, we still can’t stay away from that person because our hearts don’t give us the chance to do that, and our hearts and our souls say yes even though sometimes our mouths say no. The heart is what we need to survive. We are obligated to please it. The soul directs the body to where it wants it. There’s nothing we can do.”
65.Namrata — November 4, 2012 at 3:41 am
The most touching sentence: “but, I’m with you…”
And the most hurting one: “I’m with you but…”
Words are the same but it is the order which matters!!!
66.Pipaw — November 15, 2012 at 5:57 pm
Loving you is my greatest tragedy but it’s okay you are my best remedy.
67.Ankurjit — November 21, 2012 at 6:11 am
I have smiled to many people for
more
than a billion times but when I
first saw
you, my heart took over and
smiled for the first time :)
68.91225 — December 16, 2012 at 6:00 am
“Give of yourself freely, but with no expectations of having it returned.
When it Is returned to you.. you may have found your match!”
69.91225 — December 16, 2012 at 6:03 am
“If you love someone, tell them so.
Love may be given back,
but if not, you can do no more, just be the best you can.
Someone, one day, will notice!”
70.91225 — December 16, 2012 at 6:06 am
“I’v been in love before,
Til I saw the love, glowing from your eyes, when you looked at me,
I realised this is the First time I have ever been in love.”
71.Kaushik — December 28, 2012 at 2:47 pm
I am not so lucky in love. The girl I love got married to someone else but I still love her. Mind says what is the point? Heart is not ready to listen or move on.
Sometimes in the middle of the night I wake up and cry. It hurts too muh. After so many days, again I am stuck in thoughts… :(
72.Farhana — December 29, 2012 at 4:52 pm
I Love U My Life.. I Love U, I Love U until my last breathe… Never leave me alone.. <3
73.Xhen :) — December 30, 2012 at 7:37 am
Love hurts, but if you’re truly in love, you will never let go .. :)
74.Kati — January 26, 2013 at 5:47 pm
My grandmother always said
‘Love is first,
Love is true,
Love I must and only you.
You I love and will forever,
You may change but I will never.’
75.jiinx — February 22, 2013 at 4:32 am
Love is friendship on fire
76.Ayada — February 28, 2013 at 6:27 pm
No one can replace someone else in your life the new ones make their own separate places in your heart.
77.Rhea Mae — March 20, 2013 at 11:58 pm
Love is when you sacrifice the person you love to have their freedom..
78.Aboubakr — March 31, 2013 at 5:55 am
“It’s easy to love someone but it’s difficult to forget him/her when you feel that he/she loves you.”
79.Ransford Lartey — April 6, 2013 at 1:59 am
To hate is life and to love is death. He that loves sacrifice and she that hates feel the jealous.
80.Uhuru Thomas — May 25, 2013 at 2:03 pm
Cute love quotes indeed.
81.Jaiprakash — June 24, 2013 at 5:56 pm
People say love is blind but one who after falling in love visualise the value of life. Never Before….
82.Shivam Chaudhary — June 30, 2013 at 3:53 pm
Loneliness tells us how to love ourselves strongly.
83.Ammu — July 24, 2013 at 6:34 am
Awesome quotes..
84.Precil — September 11, 2013 at 7:52 am
Love cannot be explained… instead, you can feel it.
85.Latitude — September 24, 2013 at 2:15 am
Fantastic quotes.
86.Motion — October 21, 2013 at 4:37 am
Love is the sweet poison,
which harms you slowly slowly,
till you DIE.
87.Mozammel — October 23, 2013 at 12:46 am
‘Love is nothing but heavenly peace’
88.Aniruddh kashyap — December 13, 2013 at 12:23 am
She will always being with my life
in the depth of my eyes
with the penalty of my emotions
and tears having
legend of love
in my soul,…
89.Gauravprakash — December 13, 2013 at 10:41 pm
Awesome quotes ….. cool…. yup.
90.Ronet K.R — December 22, 2013 at 3:39 am
Love is to care for someone without his or her notice if it’s you.
91.GHazal — January 15, 2014 at 10:41 am
Excellent and perfect. BIGGGGGGGGGG like :)
92.Anya — February 11, 2014 at 1:49 am
Love is when you get butterflies when they say anything from ok to I love you.
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