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-Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems 1: 1965-1975
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"And then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"
-Vincent van Gogh
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“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
— Sylvia Plath
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“I am out with lanterns looking for myself” - Emily Dickinson
Painting: "Walk With Lanterns" 1879 by Ilja Repin
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“When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen.”
— Ernest Hemingway
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“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
— Salvador Dalí
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“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” ― Carl Gustav Jung
Drawing: "Crouching Figure of Atlas" by Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi
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“The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds.”
— Rebecca West
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“I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.”
— Romain Rolland
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“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you” ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Painting: Justyna Kopania ~ Collection of Oil Paintings "Sea"
Corruption vs. Democracy 2024
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
l art: Allan McDonalds l quote: George Orwell "Animal Farm"
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.
―Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
―Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
photo: Alexis Rateau l quote: Hermann Hesse