Life cannot be lived in whatever way.

Do not own anything, unless stated otherwise.

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If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind    

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David, Michelangelo, detail.

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Si fractus illabatur orbis, impavidum ferient ruinae.

Horace, Ode III - Book III

Translation: “If the world should break and fall on him, it would strike him fearless.”

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Rear Window (1954) 

source: Facebook, The Best Movie Lines

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But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.

Mikhail Bakunin

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My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

Fernando Pessoa

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If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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Anais Pouliot and Leebo Freeman by Ellen von Unwerth - Vogue Russia March 2012

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Winter Light (1963)

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A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

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Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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“Dante and Virgil”, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, detail