Beba Kron

The sea has many voices, Many gods and many voices

T. S. Eliot

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Photo: Makarska, summer 2019

Goran Paskaljević

22 April 1947, Belgrade — 25 September 2020, Paris

Photo:   Cannes Film Festival, 1980. Paskaljević with Milena Dravić and Ljuba Tadić. Special Treatment (Serbian: Посебан третман, translit. Poseban tretman) is a 1980 Yugoslavian drama film directed by Goran Paskaljević. It was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival where Milena Dravić won the award for Best Supporting Actress

I'm still asleep, but meanwhile facts are taking place.

 —Wislawa Szymborska, "Early Hour"

Via Twitter

‘Whoever can't laugh doesn't deserve to be taken seriously.’   

 Thomas Bernhard, "The Loser" (1983) 

Memory believes before knowing remembers. 

William Faulkner 

Born on this day in Oxford, Mississippi 

[25 IX 1897—6 VII 1962] 

Nobel 1949, "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel."

I see you as the sun. 

 Your warmth like the sun in Van Gogh’s painting. 

 Anaïs Nin.

via  Twitter  Elise@lilyinthewind10

Happy 124 birthday Francis Scott Fitzgerald

(September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940)

“Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself?” 

 F. Scott Fitzgerald: This Side of Paradise

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Abbott Handerson Thayer 

American artist

1849-1921

 Angel Seated on a Rock

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

 Kazuo Ishiguro 

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler 

Nocturne in black and gold 

1875.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.  

"One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter." 

“La quiete prima o dopo la tempesta? Napoli ora”

Via Twitter    aura Italiano@italiano705 

Beautiful blue Danube,

“I love three things," I then say. "I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth."

"And which do you love best?"

"The dream."

Poiché arriverà una notte senza fine e un giorno che sarà l’ultimo.

U skrivenom vrtu, pod beogradskim nebom

19:00

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Era coltivata già nell' Egitto dei Faraoni e a Creta durante l'età del Bronzo.

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: 

it gives back life to those who no longer exist 

 Guy de Maupassant 

∞ 

 Still Life with Apples and Oranges 

1895 

 © Paul Cezanne