Essayist Pins and Buttons

Resist much, obey little.

James Baldwin Pop Art Illustration

Monochromatic portrait of the writer Albert Camus.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. ~ James Baldwin

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau

Retro James Baldwin Gold Tribute

GEORGE ORWELL, English novelist and essayist, journalist and critic - best known for 1984 and Animal Farm

Stop quoting dostoyevsky and explain yourself

Adam Mickiewicz Portrait | Adam Mickiewicz Artwork on prints, stickers, mugs, tshirts, canvases, wall art and more. Adam Mickiewicz was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist. He is regarded as national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced..

Stop quoting dostoyevsky and explain yourself

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees - Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau Quote Collage

Anaïs Nin quote: “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

D.H. Lawrence quote: "A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”

Jonathan Swift portrait and quote: “May you live every day of your life.”

Anaïs Nin portrait and a quote of Talmudic origin: We Don’t See Things As They Are, We See Them As We Are

Blue Sea and an Anaïs Nin quote: Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Countess of Pardo Bazán

Thomas Mann portrait and quote: Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact — it is silence which isolates.

Thomas Mann portrait and quote: No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

Thomas Mann portrait and quote: Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

Thomas Mann portrait and quote: No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

Anaïs Nin portrait and quote: I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.

With this image, we celebrate Argentine novelist, essayist and painter Ernesto Sabato.

With this image, we celebrate Argentine novelist, essayist and painter Ernesto Sabato.

Thomas Mann portrait and quote: It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Ralph Waldo Emerson and quote: It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Thomas Mann portrait and quote: It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

a perpetually relevant quote by German authorThomas Mann

Thomas Mann portrait and quote: A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Thomas Mann portrait and quote: What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

Ralph Waldo Emerson and quote: No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty.