Porque hoje faço 52 anos

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«We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.»*

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Anaïs Nin.

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* Nota - Esta frase já aqui passou num poste de 12 de Março de 2010, mas incompleta. Continuo a gostar dela.

Do mistério

Ernest Biéler, L'Eau mysterieuse

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«The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.»

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Anaïs Nin

Os namorados

António e Dionísio Ferreira (atribuído), Casal de camponeses do Presépio da Madre de Deus (1700-1730, Museu Nacional do Azulejo)

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«O único transformador, o único alquimista que muda tudo em ouro, é o amor. O único antídoto contra a morte, a idade, a vida vulgar, é o amor.»

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Anaïs Nin.

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Gustave Courbet, Les Amants dans la campagne (1844, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon)

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Pál Szinyei Merse, Lovers (1869-1870, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapeste)

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Henri Martin, The Lovers

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Pablo Picasso, Les amoureux (1923)

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Raquel Roque Gameiro, Minho (1935, Museu José Malhoa)

Amizade

Walther Firle, Spannende Lektüre (1929)

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«Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born». 

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Anaïs Nin (1937).

Perspectivas

Alfred Henry Maurer, In a cafe (1905, Museu do Hermitage, São Petersburgo).

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«We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are».
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Anaïs Nin.

A Janela sobre o Jardim I

 

Pintura de Iosif Krachkovskiy.

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«A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked».

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Anaïs Nin .

Crescer

Pintura de Berthe Morisot, Chasse aux papillons (ca. 1874, Museu d'Orsay, Paris).

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«We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another».

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Anaïs Nin.