Ithacan odyssey

"As you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that your journey be a long one, filled with adventure, filled with discovery." - Cavafy

[urbnite]

[rrondo]

[envicta]

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[envicta]

[envicta]

[gentlemanmotorslifestyle]

[blackswaneuroparedux]

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

- Salvador Dali

Photo: Salvador Dali and Raquel Welch

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One reason why a couple of my American male work colleagues left America for Europe because they were annoyed by young college educated women dropping their authentic regional accents (some are even melodic to listen to) for this all too pervasive annoying nasal whine. This is not cool. Just super grating on the nerves.

[ithacarising]

Funny and so true. American college educated women. Give me European women any day of the week.

[gentlemanmotorslifestyle]

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

- Leonardo da Vinci

Feeling the rush.

Fred Fugen, a professional base jumper and sky diver, takes flight over the stunning waterfalls at Gudvangen, Norway.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.

- Sir Kenneth Clark

[gentlemanmotorslifestyle]

[blackswaneuroparedux]

A pipe is a fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinking like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

[blckwhtslvrbrwn]

[home-deco-ideas]

In a book shop in Wigtown, Scotland. [1080 x 1333]

[bellisvintage]

[bellisvintage]