On [:] Necessity | Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
Eugène Delacroix, Orphan girl at the cemetery,1823-1824 "The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness...
1850s
Thoughts on { Sirens | Herman Melville / Franz Kafka / Charles Baudelaire / Horace / Ambrose Bierce / Nikos Kazantzakis
Henri Matisse, Sirènes, 1968 “There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem...
On [:] Time | Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851
Vladimir Aldoshin, Books, 2001 “Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read...
Alphabetarion # Live | Ivan Goncharov, 1859
James Turrell, The Color Beneath, 2013; “It's hard and complicated to live simply!” Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov, 1859
Song of the Open Road (5) | Walt Whitman, 1856
Dorothea Lange. Road on the Great Plains. 1941 5From this hour I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines,Going...
Alphabetarion # Parent | Herman Melville, 1851
Pius Fox “Ignorance is the parent of fear.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale, 1851
Alphabetarion # Multitude | Charles Dickens, 1859
Fernand Léger, Composition, 1920 “A multitude of people and yet a solitude.” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859
Days [ ) Eight-hour day | Robert Owen, 1817
Eight-hour day banner, Melbourne, 1856 "Eight hours labour,Eight hours recreation,Eight hours rest" Robert Owen, 1817 On January 5, 1914, the...
On [:] Discussion | Charlotte Brontë, 1857
bonnet-grec “Observe her when she has some knitting, or some other woman's work in hand, and sits the image of...
Silentium amoris / My voice / The true knowledge | Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900 / Ναπολέων Λαπαθιώτης, 1888-1944
Oscar Wilde. Silentium amoris As oftentimes the too resplendent sun Hurries the pallid and reluctant moon Back to her sombre...