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“Every artist was first an amateur.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims

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( the photo is mine ). Florence, Italy.

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

-Oscar Wilde; The Picture of Dorian Gray

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"To be, or not to be: that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish'd."

-William Shakespeare; Hamlet

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Detail of the Venus de Milo, dated 130-100 BC. Photo taken by Ilya Shurygin.

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It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

- Herodotus, The Histories

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Venus Italica

* 2nd century CE

* Italica (Santiponce)

* Paros marble

* 211 cm

* Archaeological Museum of Seville

http://www.españaescultura.es/es/obras_de_excelencia/museo_arqueologico_de_sevilla/venus_italica.html

source: VIATOR IMPERI, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

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"Strange, but whenever I looked at him I found myself remembering that Lucifer himself had been an angel before he fell." (Susan Kay)

-Through cataclysm, Andreas Birath

- Wedding of heaven and hell, Roberto Ferri

"I could kill anyone tonight, Daroga. If the Holy Virgin herself was to appear before me I could put a dagger through her heart without a moment's compunction! I no longer have a foot in either camp; I have made my choice. Like Lucifer, I prefer to reign in hell." (Susan Kay)

- The fallen Angel, Alexander Cabanel

"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves." (Milan Kundera)