“That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.”
John Joly
The Blue Sea by the Canadian artist,
Helen McNicoll (1879-1915), c. 1914
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Film, travel, books, music.
Marzena Anna
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She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?
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Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)
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Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.
Nora Ephron
“With the coming of spring, I am calm again.” – Gustav Mahler
🎨 Spring, Leon Wyczółkowski,1931
🎨 Spring, Leon Wyczółkowski,1931
I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.
Joaquin Sorolla