
You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.
– Elena Ferrante –
Photography + poem + art

You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.
– Elena Ferrante –

Burn this house
Burn it blue
Heart running on empty
So lost without you …
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PiTicJ0TC1Q
Caetano Veloso & Lila Downs – Burn it Blue

Meditation is a mysterious method of self-restoration.
It involves “shutting” out the outside world, and by that means sensing the universal “presence” which is, incidentally, absolute perfect peace.
It is basically an existential “time-out”—a way to “come up for a breath of air” out of the noisy clutter of the world.
But don’t be afraid …
A meditation can be as simple as taking a series of easy breaths, and slowly, gently counting to ten in your mind.
– Vera Nazarian –

…these poets here, you see, they are not of this world: let them live their strange life; let them be cold and hungry, let them run, love and sing …
… for they have their souls full of rhymes, rhymes which laugh and cry, which make us laugh or cry: Let them live …
– Arthur Rimbaud –

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls
– Friedrich Nietzsche –
Ph : Laura Tiliman

Love me like a river does
Cross the sea …
Endlessly …
Baby don’t rush …
Love me that is all …
– Melody Gardot – Love Me Like a River Does
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C6zIebOsJyk
Ph : Mario Sorrenti

You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget.
– Henning Mankell – The Troubled Man

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they’re honest about everything.
– Chuck Klosterman –

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
– Henry James –

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
– Albert Camus –