J'ai enfin compris ce que c'était que vieillir : voir ses livres passer du blanc immaculé à l'ivoire, puis de l'ivoire au pastel, du pastel au jaune et enfin du jaune à l'orange.
"At some point in life
the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.“
Toni Morrison
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Stanley Kubrick on the set of his masterpiece, "Barry Lyndon," 1975. Roger Ebert said "Stanley Kubrick's 'Barry Lyndon'...is now widely regarded as one of the master's best...technically awesome, emotionally distant, remorseless in its doubt of human goodness."
“To be a ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 among people
and to remain one forever, no matter
in what circumstances, not to grow
despondent and not to lose heart
— that’s what life is all about.”
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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A foggy day, London by Kristina Makeeva
James Joyce. He wore white to reflect more light onto the paper he was working on because he suffered from severe vision problems, including near-blindness.
Was frommte mir's, den Baldachin zu tragen,
Mit meinem Äußern hohlem Prunk zu dienen,
Zu baun an ewger Werke Unterlagen,
Die Umsturz rasch verwandeln in Ruinen?
William Shakespeare, Sonett 125 (Übers. G. Wolff)
The stars are dead; the animals will not look:
we are left alone with our day, and the time is short and
history to the defeated
may say Alas but cannot help or pardon.
Wystan Hugh Auden, Spain 1937
Um eine Welt in einem Sandkorn zu sehn
und einen Himmel in einer wilden Blume,
halte die Unendlichkeit in deiner flachen Hand
und die Ewigkeit in einer Stunde.
William Blake, Weissagungen der Unschuld