“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion.
The great task in life is to find reality.”
— Iris Murdoch
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Johann Sebastian Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Fugue VIII
♫ mp3 performed by Carlos Gardels.
Released: 2010. Track 1.
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Happy Valentine’s Day! 😉
“…What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say milk-colored maidens are dancing on the petals of orchids. How coldly burns our sun! One would say its rays of light are shards of snow, one imagines the sun lives upon a snow crested peak on this day.”
— Roman Payne
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“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”
— Mignon McLaughlin
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“The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.”
— Josh Waitzkin, The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
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“The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colours, which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts.”
— James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
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Be careful ~ You’ll visit Etsy by clicking on the images.
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“Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity”
— Novala Takemoto, Missin
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“Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.”
— Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers
“Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right – no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse.”
— J.R. Ward, Lover Avenged
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P.S. “When in doubt wear red.” (Bill Blass)
“We (people) only remembered that elves sang. But we forgot what they sang about.”
— Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
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Be careful ~ You’ll visit Etsy by clicking on the images.
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