Smendzianka
@smendzianka.bsky.social
Muziek, Literatuur, Filosofie, Theater, Politiek, Italië, the World, I love it all, but stoic as possible 🎶
I never heard silence so loud as in music.
I never heard silence so loud as in music.
'Que de bonheurs possibles dont on sacrifie ainsi la réalisation à l'impatience d'un plaisir immédiat.'
Marcel Proust
dtd 1922
'Un Amour de Swann'
#film
by Volker Schlöndorf, 1984
Jeremy Irons
Ornella Muti
Marcel Proust
dtd 1922
'Un Amour de Swann'
#film
by Volker Schlöndorf, 1984
Jeremy Irons
Ornella Muti
November 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
'Que de bonheurs possibles dont on sacrifie ainsi la réalisation à l'impatience d'un plaisir immédiat.'
Marcel Proust
dtd 1922
'Un Amour de Swann'
#film
by Volker Schlöndorf, 1984
Jeremy Irons
Ornella Muti
Marcel Proust
dtd 1922
'Un Amour de Swann'
#film
by Volker Schlöndorf, 1984
Jeremy Irons
Ornella Muti
'Le motif est quelque chose de secondaire,
ce que je veux reproduire, c'est ce qu'il y a entre le motif et moi.'
Claude Monet
btd 1840 d 1926
'Cathédrale Rouen Nuit'
youtu.be/I1QjLF0kNHc?si…
ce que je veux reproduire, c'est ce qu'il y a entre le motif et moi.'
Claude Monet
btd 1840 d 1926
'Cathédrale Rouen Nuit'
youtu.be/I1QjLF0kNHc?si…
November 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
'Le motif est quelque chose de secondaire,
ce que je veux reproduire, c'est ce qu'il y a entre le motif et moi.'
Claude Monet
btd 1840 d 1926
'Cathédrale Rouen Nuit'
youtu.be/I1QjLF0kNHc?si…
ce que je veux reproduire, c'est ce qu'il y a entre le motif et moi.'
Claude Monet
btd 1840 d 1926
'Cathédrale Rouen Nuit'
youtu.be/I1QjLF0kNHc?si…
'I am the greatest example of a very real fact, that all the publicity in the world will not make you a movie star if you are not also an actress.'
Jean Seberg
btd 1938 d 1979
#actress
'A bout de souffle', 1960
by Jean-Luc Godard
'Bonjour Tristesse', 1958
by Otto Preminger
Jean Seberg
btd 1938 d 1979
#actress
'A bout de souffle', 1960
by Jean-Luc Godard
'Bonjour Tristesse', 1958
by Otto Preminger
November 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
'I am the greatest example of a very real fact, that all the publicity in the world will not make you a movie star if you are not also an actress.'
Jean Seberg
btd 1938 d 1979
#actress
'A bout de souffle', 1960
by Jean-Luc Godard
'Bonjour Tristesse', 1958
by Otto Preminger
Jean Seberg
btd 1938 d 1979
#actress
'A bout de souffle', 1960
by Jean-Luc Godard
'Bonjour Tristesse', 1958
by Otto Preminger
'Il n'y a réellement ni beau style, ni beau dessin, ni belle couleur : il n'y a qu'une seule beauté, celle de la vérité qui se révèle.'
Auguste Rodin
btd 1840 d 1917
'Danaïde'
Auguste Rodin
btd 1840 d 1917
'Danaïde'
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
'Il n'y a réellement ni beau style, ni beau dessin, ni belle couleur : il n'y a qu'une seule beauté, celle de la vérité qui se révèle.'
Auguste Rodin
btd 1840 d 1917
'Danaïde'
Auguste Rodin
btd 1840 d 1917
'Danaïde'
'The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in.'
Fyodor Dostoevsky
btd 1821 d 1881
Fyodor Dostoevsky
btd 1821 d 1881
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
'The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in.'
Fyodor Dostoevsky
btd 1821 d 1881
Fyodor Dostoevsky
btd 1821 d 1881
'...aber ist es nicht ungerecht, einen Menschen um seiner siechen Außenseite willen zu verdammen?'
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
'...aber ist es nicht ungerecht, einen Menschen um seiner siechen Außenseite willen zu verdammen?'
Es ist kein leerer, schmeichelnder Wahn,
erzeugt im Gehirne des Toren,
im Herzen kündet es laut sich an:
zu was Besserm sind wir geboren.
Und was die innere Stimme spricht,
das täuscht die hoffende Seele nicht.'
Friedrich Schiller
btd 1759 d 1805
erzeugt im Gehirne des Toren,
im Herzen kündet es laut sich an:
zu was Besserm sind wir geboren.
Und was die innere Stimme spricht,
das täuscht die hoffende Seele nicht.'
Friedrich Schiller
btd 1759 d 1805
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Es ist kein leerer, schmeichelnder Wahn,
erzeugt im Gehirne des Toren,
im Herzen kündet es laut sich an:
zu was Besserm sind wir geboren.
Und was die innere Stimme spricht,
das täuscht die hoffende Seele nicht.'
Friedrich Schiller
btd 1759 d 1805
erzeugt im Gehirne des Toren,
im Herzen kündet es laut sich an:
zu was Besserm sind wir geboren.
Und was die innere Stimme spricht,
das täuscht die hoffende Seele nicht.'
Friedrich Schiller
btd 1759 d 1805
Indem die sogenannten Realisten solche einfachen Ideeen wie gut und böse, Anstand und Verbrechen ignorieren, sind sie bereit mit dem Teufel Geschäfte zu machen, der sie natürlich erst recht überlisten und betrügen wird.'
Erika Mann
btd 1905 d 1969
Erika Mann
btd 1905 d 1969
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Indem die sogenannten Realisten solche einfachen Ideeen wie gut und böse, Anstand und Verbrechen ignorieren, sind sie bereit mit dem Teufel Geschäfte zu machen, der sie natürlich erst recht überlisten und betrügen wird.'
Erika Mann
btd 1905 d 1969
Erika Mann
btd 1905 d 1969
Ik leef in een half gedemonteerd huis met losse spullen die nog weg moeten. Ik bin das Haus abhanden gekommen.
Het huis staat in Friesland.
Bij belangstelling DM.
Het huis staat in Friesland.
Bij belangstelling DM.
November 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Ik leef in een half gedemonteerd huis met losse spullen die nog weg moeten. Ik bin das Haus abhanden gekommen.
Het huis staat in Friesland.
Bij belangstelling DM.
Het huis staat in Friesland.
Bij belangstelling DM.
'Ce n'est pas la souffrance de l'enfant qui est révoltante en elle-même, mais le fait que cette souffrance ne soit pas justifiée. La souffrance use l'espoir et la foi.'
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
'Ce n'est pas la souffrance de l'enfant qui est révoltante en elle-même, mais le fait que cette souffrance ne soit pas justifiée. La souffrance use l'espoir et la foi.'
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
'Irgendwie geht Ordnung in das Bedürfnis nach Totschlag über.'
Robert Musil
btd 1880 d 1942
Robert Musil
btd 1880 d 1942
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
'Irgendwie geht Ordnung in das Bedürfnis nach Totschlag über.'
Robert Musil
btd 1880 d 1942
Robert Musil
btd 1880 d 1942
November 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
'Their racist rhetoric was simply self-doubt, the fear of not knowing how to be oneself and of being able to remain so in the face of others, as if relationships always had to be based on domination and submission.'
Laurent Mauvignier
Laurent Mauvignier
November 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
'Their racist rhetoric was simply self-doubt, the fear of not knowing how to be oneself and of being able to remain so in the face of others, as if relationships always had to be based on domination and submission.'
Laurent Mauvignier
Laurent Mauvignier
Aware of life’s fleetness, yet undaunted,
He dares to wend his way -against all odds-
As if eternity has been bestowed upon him
And he is master of the universe.'
Samuil Marshak
btd 1887 d 1964
writer, translator #Belarusian #Jewish
He dares to wend his way -against all odds-
As if eternity has been bestowed upon him
And he is master of the universe.'
Samuil Marshak
btd 1887 d 1964
writer, translator #Belarusian #Jewish
November 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Aware of life’s fleetness, yet undaunted,
He dares to wend his way -against all odds-
As if eternity has been bestowed upon him
And he is master of the universe.'
Samuil Marshak
btd 1887 d 1964
writer, translator #Belarusian #Jewish
He dares to wend his way -against all odds-
As if eternity has been bestowed upon him
And he is master of the universe.'
Samuil Marshak
btd 1887 d 1964
writer, translator #Belarusian #Jewish
Some, finding the spectacle barbarous,
prefer (the delicates) to die.
There comes a time when there’s no point in dying.
There comes a time when life is an order.
Merely life, without perplexity.'
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
btd 1902 d 1987
Copyright
🎨 Candido Portinari
prefer (the delicates) to die.
There comes a time when there’s no point in dying.
There comes a time when life is an order.
Merely life, without perplexity.'
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
btd 1902 d 1987
Copyright
🎨 Candido Portinari
October 31, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Some, finding the spectacle barbarous,
prefer (the delicates) to die.
There comes a time when there’s no point in dying.
There comes a time when life is an order.
Merely life, without perplexity.'
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
btd 1902 d 1987
Copyright
🎨 Candido Portinari
prefer (the delicates) to die.
There comes a time when there’s no point in dying.
There comes a time when life is an order.
Merely life, without perplexity.'
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
btd 1902 d 1987
Copyright
🎨 Candido Portinari
'Classical music is not just art, but "time passing," a force that creates deep connections and reveals the complexity of existence.'
Alessandro Baricco
Alessandro Baricco
October 31, 2025 at 5:31 PM
'Classical music is not just art, but "time passing," a force that creates deep connections and reveals the complexity of existence.'
Alessandro Baricco
Alessandro Baricco
'Au fond, les arts sont des ascèses et ne valent que par l’infini qu’on y met.'
'Basically, the arts are forms of asceticism and are only valuable because of the infinite effort one puts into them.'
Paul Valéry
btd 1871 d 1945
🎨 Yun Gee
'Basically, the arts are forms of asceticism and are only valuable because of the infinite effort one puts into them.'
Paul Valéry
btd 1871 d 1945
🎨 Yun Gee
October 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
'Au fond, les arts sont des ascèses et ne valent que par l’infini qu’on y met.'
'Basically, the arts are forms of asceticism and are only valuable because of the infinite effort one puts into them.'
Paul Valéry
btd 1871 d 1945
🎨 Yun Gee
'Basically, the arts are forms of asceticism and are only valuable because of the infinite effort one puts into them.'
Paul Valéry
btd 1871 d 1945
🎨 Yun Gee
'I could tell him, too, that to know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.'
Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh
October 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
'I could tell him, too, that to know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.'
Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh
'There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.'
Evelyn Waugh
btd 1903 d 1966
Evelyn Waugh
btd 1903 d 1966
October 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
'There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.'
Evelyn Waugh
btd 1903 d 1966
Evelyn Waugh
btd 1903 d 1966
And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time..'
'The Unabridged Journals'
Sylvia Plath
btd 1932 d 1963
'The Unabridged Journals'
Sylvia Plath
btd 1932 d 1963
October 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time..'
'The Unabridged Journals'
Sylvia Plath
btd 1932 d 1963
'The Unabridged Journals'
Sylvia Plath
btd 1932 d 1963
Andrei Bely
btd 1880 d 1934
@Russian writer
btd 1880 d 1934
@Russian writer
October 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Andrei Bely
btd 1880 d 1934
@Russian writer
btd 1880 d 1934
@Russian writer
(Tr)
'Some governments, when they send their legions from one pole to the other, still speak of defending their homes;
it is as if they call all the places where they have set fire their homes.'
Benjamin Constant
btd 1767 d 1830
#French writer, politician
'Some governments, when they send their legions from one pole to the other, still speak of defending their homes;
it is as if they call all the places where they have set fire their homes.'
Benjamin Constant
btd 1767 d 1830
#French writer, politician
October 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
(Tr)
'Some governments, when they send their legions from one pole to the other, still speak of defending their homes;
it is as if they call all the places where they have set fire their homes.'
Benjamin Constant
btd 1767 d 1830
#French writer, politician
'Some governments, when they send their legions from one pole to the other, still speak of defending their homes;
it is as if they call all the places where they have set fire their homes.'
Benjamin Constant
btd 1767 d 1830
#French writer, politician
October 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Catherine Deneuve
btd 1943
by Luis Buñuel
btd 1943
by Luis Buñuel
October 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Catherine Deneuve
btd 1943
by Luis Buñuel
btd 1943
by Luis Buñuel