mode de vie ascétique

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Gino Bartali climbing in the Pyrenees on his way to winning stage 11 of the Tour de France, 1950 (July 25, from Pau to Saint-Gaudens). Bartali and his Italian teammates later pulled out of the race because of attacks by spectators.

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Paparazzi.

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Soft tapping

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Snax

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Giro d'Italia, 1957, Louison Bobet.

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Geminiani.

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What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and woman? “Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant implacable resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction, when invisible.”

James Joyce - Ulysses (via liroforoceleste)

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Seoul Olympics `88 by Anders Via Flickr: Gintautas Umaras

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When being photographed it is essential to get your crank position perfect.

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Henri Anglade

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Endure them, the terrible ones. It is still dark, and the terrible goes on growing. Lost and swallowed by the streams of procreating life, we approach the overpowering, inhuman forces that are busily creating what is to come. How much future the depths carry! Are not the threads spun down there over millennia? Protect the riddles, bear them in your heart, warm them, be pregnant with them. Thus you carry the future.

The tension of the future is unbearable in us. It must break through narrow cracks, it must force new ways.

– Jung, Liber Novus

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London Nocturne illustration made by Neil Stevens for Mr Porter. 

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Merckx and Poulidor