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This mindless simplicity can be called happiness

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http://onixa.deviantart.com/art/Keeping-the-Faith-122758085

I wanted to find “mindless simplicity” of green colour, but it took me too long and I settled on pink simplicity.  I am sure simplicity does not even have a colour, same as happiness or joy.  I personally cannot resist the colour Blue.

Happiness, divine and banal word, a complex proposition which shifts its [...]

Our senses don’t deceive us: our judgment does

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Dear Diary,
I cannot write (if only write!), I want to break out of this vicious circle.
I found a consolation for the moment in a serious of beautiful pictures, some of them I am sharing on this web-site and I will continue quoting people who make me feel alive.
Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The man with [...]

“The Barefoot Contessa”

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It does not matter how awful anything is.  Anything can make you think, analyze, compare, and write.  Or not.  It is not a film review per se; it is more or less a letter to myself.  I need to express my feelings, even though I might be the only one ending up reading it [...]

Oh My Dear Maple

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Oh my dear maple
Sergei Yesenin (4 Oct. 1895 – 27 Dec. 1925)

Oh my dear maple, frozen stiff and bare,
Why do you stand bending in the blizzard there?
Have you seen a vision? Have you heard a babble?
Just like you are out for an idle ramble.
Like a tipsy [...]

When first we met we did not guess

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Robert Bridges (1844 – 1930)
 
Triolet
 
 
When first we met we did not guess
That Love would prove so hard a master;
Of more than common friendliness
When first we met we did not guess.
Who could foretell this sore distress,
This irretrievable disaster
When first we met – We did not guess
That Love would prove so hard a master.