A Paladin’s Venture

“Life is short, the fruit of this life is a good character & acts for the common good” Marcus Aurelius ..Space✨ ..Shakespeare 🪶 ..Philosophy 🏛 ..Film 🎞️ ..Design 🌇 ..Trek🖖 ..Comics 📚

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Out chasing waterfalls today in the freezing Irish countryside 🥶.

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"There is a tide in the affairs of men,

Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

Omitted, all the voyage of their life

is bound in shallows and in miseries.

On such a full sea are we now afloat.

And we must take the current when it serves,

or lose our ventures."

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William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 🎭

Art 🎨 by Aleksander Karcz

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“A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future;”

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Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity 📖

Art 🎨 by MissKarin

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“Fixation is the way to death, fluidity is the way to life. This is something that should be well understood.”

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Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings: A Classic Text on the Japanese Way of the Sword 📖

Art 🎨 by Takehiko Inoue

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Living under dark skies has benefits when the solar wind breezes by…

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"..life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generation, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable."

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.. A Case of Identity 📖

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There be fire in the sky..

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“This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,

Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,

Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best.

Night, sleep, and the stars.”

- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass 📖

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“I accept Time absolutely.

It alone is without flaw,

It alone rounds and completes all,

That mystic baffling wonder.”

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass 📖

Art 🎨 by Gaël Gamba

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The weekend is done, Monday to come 😔 …may it be gentle 😄.

📸 by me.

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“I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.”

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Herman Hesse, Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend 📖

#Art 🎨 by CMprojects

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“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”

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Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice 📖 #janeaustenday

📽️ Silver Linings Playbook

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“It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violence for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely.”

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Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot’s Christmas 📖

Art🎨 by Ville Kupila

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“Our best hope is to come on him when in the box between sunrise and sunset; for then he can make no struggle, and we may deal with him as we should.”

Dracula, Bram Stoker 📖

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…time has run out 😬😁

📸 by me.

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“Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.”

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Confucius, The Analects 📖

#Art 🎨 by snatti89

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📖 ‘Ghosts & Supernatural’

“Maybe all the people who say ghosts don’t exist are just afraid to admit that they do.”

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Michael Ende,The Neverending Story

#Art 🎨 by Saujani Art

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📖 ‘Ghosts & Supernatural’

“It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth’s dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.”

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At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft

#Art 🎨 by Marc Simonetti