Na penumbra, a resiliência.

“Entretanto, descobri por experiência própria que algumas vezes a mais doce e terna, a mais inocente e animadora companhia pode ser encontrada em qualquer objeto natural, mesmo para o coitado misantropo e o mais melancólico dos homens..." (...)

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Little Esmeralda (detail), 1874 oil on canvas William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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View of Ischl (1838) by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

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Dachstein, 1839 by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller.

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The neighbors (1859) by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

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Time of roses, c.1864 by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller.

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Jacob van Ruisdael (1629 – 1682)

View of Bentheim Castle, c. 1652 - 1654

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Thomas Benjamin Kennington  — Contemplation. detail. circa 1900

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Robert Kämmerer

Sonnwendfeuer

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Petr Petrovich Vereshchagin (1836-1886)

Ust’-Koiva

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L’Enlèvement d’Europe (détail) | Jean-François de Troy

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Christen Dalsgaard

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“Like plants, men can not exist without roots.” – Dominique Venner

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After Guido Reni. Detail from Europa and the Bull, 17th Century.

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Twilight in the Cedars at Darien, Connecticut - John Frederick Kensett

1872

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Carl Holsøe (1863-1935)

Interior with the artist’s wife reading

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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Carl Gustav Jung (via psych-facts)

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The Grapevines by Francesc Gimeno 1898.