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Anne Wiazemsky in Wind from the East / Le Vent D'est (1970) directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin (Groupe Dziga Vertov)
23.11.2025 17:07 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Solitudes.
© Juan Manuel Sáenz de Santa María, 2017.
Boat, Connemara, 1951. Lucian Freud, (1922 - 2011). Pen, black ink and tempera, with touches of white heightening, on thin Whatman paper.
23.11.2025 17:01 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
Marcel Proust
Herbert List, Vénézuela 1957 .
23.11.2025 16:56 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“You don’t understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.”
Clarice Lispector, “Acqua Viva”
Martin Munkacsi. Walking in the rain. 1920s
20.11.2025 18:20 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Coal Mine “Zeche Katharina” (1954-59) in Essen, Germany, by Fritz Schupp. Photo by Albert Renger-Patzsch.
20.11.2025 18:19 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it.”
Herman Hesse, Siddhartha .
Beautiful peonies.
20.11.2025 18:12 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Pierre Bonnard, 1927 vers le cannet sous la neige.
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“Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.”
Arvo Pärt, the Sound of Spirit.
Wu Guanzhong.
Pomagranate.
Claude Monet, Water Lilies.
17.11.2025 21:11 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Close Up, 2018. Frank Schott.
17.11.2025 21:10 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Nous ne pouvons vivre que dans l’entrouvert, exactement sur la ligne hermétique de partage de l’ombre et de la lumière. Mais nous sommes irrésistiblement jetés en avant. Toute notre personne prête aide et vertige à cette poussée.”
René Char, Les Matinaux, 1964
States of Mind.....
14.11.2025 09:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“I had to live awhile before I understood that a lot of things can only be said joking and not joking at the same time.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home.
“Then why do you want to know?
Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.”
Umberto Eco.
Franco Fontana.
13.11.2025 20:53 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sergio Larrain. Italy, Roma. 1959.
13.11.2025 20:51 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Dans l’amour, il n’y a pas de « si » il n’y a pas de condition.
Je vous aime sans condition, sans justification.
Je vous aime tel que vous êtes, et vous êtes libre d’être comme vous êtes.
Don Miguel Ruiz.
Illustration by Koji Fukiya, 1935.
12.11.2025 21:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
".... e noi avevamo vent'anni, e ogni cosa era al suo posto, avevamo un passato oscuro, un presente luminoso e una freccia ci indicava quale direzione prendere per andare incontro a quello che allora credevamo fosse il futuro."
Almudena Grandes
Saul Leiter, Model Simone, for “Harper’s Bazaar”, 1959.
12.11.2025 20:51 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Le seul alchimiste capable de tout changer en or est l’amour.
L’unique sortilège contre la mort, la vieillesse, la vie routinière, c’est l’amour.”
Anaïs Nin.
Gjon Mili’s cat, Blackie, looking at his portrait in a mural by Saul Steinberg in Mili’s studio, NY, 1947.
11.11.2025 18:32 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Melvin Sokolsky On The Seine, Paris 1963.
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‘What do you do from morning to night?’ ‘I endure myself.’
Emil Cioran.
La famiglia Consolaro Girelli - Felice Casorati
09.11.2025 16:23 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
