LEOPOLD et BONAPARTE

“In a jasper fable, my dream glittered all the more blue.” - Shuzo Takiguchi, The Fish’s Desire

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“And the heart does not die when one thinks it should, we smile, there is tea and bread on the table. (…)” - Czesław Miłosz, Elegy for N.N.

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‘The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.’ - Marc Chagall

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“The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.” - Marc Chagall

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somenicemusic : > ERIK SATΠ// GNOSSIENNE NO. 1 n. a moment of awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life, and somewhere in the hallwa...

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Nous réveiller tous les matins aussi surpris de nous trouver si bien dans le même lit, de ne désirer rien de plus que ce si quotidien plaisir d'être ensemble, aussi bien. - Jamais je ne t�...

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A box of photographs on a blue night, Paris blue. A box of ribbons, postcards, old tickets, faces, and rose petals. “You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.�...

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A post on happily ever after. I glimpsed it once, tasted it, red and perfect as a ripe tomato, fresh as basil freshly picked, somewhere in the Tuscan countryside. Somewhere on a hill. https://yar...

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“Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death.” - Mavis Gallant

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I found a secret garden. It’s wonderful, so wonderful I had to take you. Come, it’s on the top floor. https://yarazgheib.com/?p=2690 #yarazgheib #nonutilitarian #thenonutilitarian https://ww...

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When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness. I would almost say that they save me, and...

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“The sea silently outstretched beneath the moon. Yes, it is here that I feel the right to die peacefully, here that I can say: “I was weak, yet I have done what I could.”” - Albert Camu...

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butteryplanet : > cinemagraph artist on instagram >  Air.

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I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, ...

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I am haunted by waters. It may be that I’m too dry in myself, too English, or it may be simply that I’m susceptible to beauty, but I do not feel truly at ease on this earth unless there’s a...

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So long as that woman from the Rijksmuseum in painted quiet and concentration keeps pouring milk day after day from the pitcher to the bowl the World hasn’t earned the world’s end. - Wislaw...

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like-fairy-tales : > By: George >  …lover of maps and Camus. - P.L.

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Such a lot of world to see.

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Left for the lights always in season

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detailsofpaintings : > Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Pastoral Landscape with a Shepherd and > Shepherdess at Rest (details)  >  > 1756-1761 “Ripples on the surface of water were sil...

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