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Art and Literature Sanctuary: A Refuge / Side blog: zamfirazeama Avatar: “In Spite of Everything, Spring” – Jacqueline Lamba

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Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (Dutch–Belgian, 1821–1909), "Study of Eleven Cats" (details), 1904

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Carl Frederik Sørensen (Danish, 1818–1879), "Seascape with a Yacht in Rough Waters along the Cliffs of Møn" (details), 1869

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Karl Wagner (German, 1864–1939), "Ten-Point Stag in the Forest" (detail)

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"[...] and then, with even greater agitation began to speak. Her story was incoherent, the turmoil of her spirit could be felt in her words, but Ordynov understood it all, because her life had become his life, her grief his grief, [...]"

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Landlady, 1847

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Selected works by Alexander Dzigurski and Alexander Dzigurski II.

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Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1842–1931), "Reclining Nude II" and "Female Nude"

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Selected works by Alexander Dzigurski and Alexander Dzigurski II.

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"Though I may not be happy, yet am I not unhappy in my loneliness."

— Mika Waltari, The Egyptian, 1945

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Salvador Dalí, "The Vertebrate Grotto – Transfer Series", 1936

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Chinese mosaic fur-carpet (ca. 1905). From: P. Pellifex, Annals of Furs, No. 1.

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“When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds for him — the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. Yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage.”

— Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love, 1950

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Joseph Bartholomew Kidd after John James Audubon, "Black-Backed Three-Toed Woodpecker", 1831–33

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Francis A. Silva (American, 1835–1886), "Cape Ann" (detail), 1870

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"For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."

† Romans 8:18 (KJV) †

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Friedrich Gauermann (Austrian, 1807–1862), "At the Farrier's" (details)

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J. Alden Weir (American, 1852–1919), "Idle Hours" (details), 1888

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Friedrich Gauermann (Austrian, 1807–1862), "At the Farrier's" (details)