Mara
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"I feel as if I've had much too much summer and too much sun. Everything in me is waiting for the trees to shed everything and reveal the distance behind them, with its empty fields and the long roads into winter."
Rainer Maria Rilke in a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé
Rainer Maria Rilke in a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé
September 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"I feel as if I've had much too much summer and too much sun. Everything in me is waiting for the trees to shed everything and reveal the distance behind them, with its empty fields and the long roads into winter."
Rainer Maria Rilke in a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé
Rainer Maria Rilke in a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé
one of the most beautiful scenes in filmography, Robert Redford's recitation
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
September 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
one of the most beautiful scenes in filmography, Robert Redford's recitation
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
greatness among filmmakers
RIP
RIP
September 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
greatness among filmmakers
RIP
RIP
"I know that everything that was is in the past, and that it will never come back, but please don't convince me that the past is no longer alive."
Seneca
Seneca
September 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"I know that everything that was is in the past, and that it will never come back, but please don't convince me that the past is no longer alive."
Seneca
Seneca
"Simplicity is the first step of nature, and the last of art."
James Bailey
James Bailey
September 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"Simplicity is the first step of nature, and the last of art."
James Bailey
James Bailey
“In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.”
Frank O’Hara
Frank O’Hara
September 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.”
Frank O’Hara
Frank O’Hara
"Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman."
Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel
September 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM
"Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman."
Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel
I didn't write him a song / I didn't tell him anything, nor about love / nor about twilight / I drowned in his gaze
August 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I didn't write him a song / I didn't tell him anything, nor about love / nor about twilight / I drowned in his gaze
"The hardest thing in life and the hardest to live through is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering. You can do things to aid people's physical disabilities; but you can do little to help the pain of the heart."
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
June 28, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"The hardest thing in life and the hardest to live through is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering. You can do things to aid people's physical disabilities; but you can do little to help the pain of the heart."
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
Everything I need to know in life, elephants can teach me...
Plato
Plato
June 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Everything I need to know in life, elephants can teach me...
Plato
Plato
"It could probably be said that a man's vital humanity diminishes to the extent that he renounces opinion."
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
June 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"It could probably be said that a man's vital humanity diminishes to the extent that he renounces opinion."
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
promenade of colorful umbrellas
June 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
promenade of colorful umbrellas
"Only by closing doors behind oneself do windows open onto the future."
François Sagan
François Sagan
June 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
"Only by closing doors behind oneself do windows open onto the future."
François Sagan
François Sagan
"When we see even once the glow of happiness on the face of someone we love, we know that there can be no other vocation for a person than to arouse that light in the faces around him."
Camus
María Casares and Albert Camus
Camus
María Casares and Albert Camus
June 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
"When we see even once the glow of happiness on the face of someone we love, we know that there can be no other vocation for a person than to arouse that light in the faces around him."
Camus
María Casares and Albert Camus
Camus
María Casares and Albert Camus
"The Iranian issue I don't think has much to do with nuclear weapons frankly. Nobody is saying Iran should have nuclear weapons nor should anybody else.But the point in the Middle East, as distinct from North Korea, is that this is center of the world's energy resources. Originally the British...
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June 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"The Iranian issue I don't think has much to do with nuclear weapons frankly. Nobody is saying Iran should have nuclear weapons nor should anybody else.But the point in the Middle East, as distinct from North Korea, is that this is center of the world's energy resources. Originally the British...
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"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."
June 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."
“Do you know the legend of the cicadas?
They say they are the souls of poets, who cannot keep quiet because in their lifetime they did not write the poems they wanted to.”
John Berger
Art, Matisse
They say they are the souls of poets, who cannot keep quiet because in their lifetime they did not write the poems they wanted to.”
John Berger
Art, Matisse
June 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
“Do you know the legend of the cicadas?
They say they are the souls of poets, who cannot keep quiet because in their lifetime they did not write the poems they wanted to.”
John Berger
Art, Matisse
They say they are the souls of poets, who cannot keep quiet because in their lifetime they did not write the poems they wanted to.”
John Berger
Art, Matisse
"U teškim vremenima, nosite nešto lijepo u svom srcu."
Blaise Pascal
I knew a wonderful garden in West Yorkshire.💔
Blaise Pascal
I knew a wonderful garden in West Yorkshire.💔
June 20, 2025 at 8:10 AM
"U teškim vremenima, nosite nešto lijepo u svom srcu."
Blaise Pascal
I knew a wonderful garden in West Yorkshire.💔
Blaise Pascal
I knew a wonderful garden in West Yorkshire.💔
"From a feast of joy I am left with a jug of pain."
Chidiock Tishborne
Chidiock Tishborne
June 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
"From a feast of joy I am left with a jug of pain."
Chidiock Tishborne
Chidiock Tishborne