A Love Poem…

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This cartoon by Alex Gregory, which ran in the New Yorker on Sept. 12 is making the rounds online.
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She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er [...]

“Ik voel in mijzelf een zo stralend leven,dat ik een wereld zou kunnen verlichten,en toch zit ik in een soort mineraal opgesloten.”-Balzac

“I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question [...]

“Hallelujah”
Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don’t really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the [...]

‘Sometimes the truth of a thing is not so much in the thing of it,as in the feel of it…”-Stanley Kubrick
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8 years after the establishment of ARIS Athletic Club, the basketball section of the team was formed.  Just as in football, ARIS basketball was destined to make the citizens of Thessaloniki proud.
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Family Guy Sings!, a new stage show featuring the entire cast of Seth MacFarlane’s Emmy Award-winning  animated television series “Family Guy,” promises to bring the house down at New York’s legendary  Carnegie Hall on Monday, November 24 & Tuesday, November 25.
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“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.“-Oscar Wilde
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Messalina,serving as a prostitute under the pseudonym of Lisisca.

Roman sources claim that Messalina used sex to enforce her power and control politicians.

she had a brothel under an assumed name and organised orgies for upper class women.

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Someone told me today  that I was lazy. It did me good. I should like such a warning every morning upon awakening: but they cannot understand me nor can they understand life the way is see it and feel it.-oblomov
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Arguably Buckley’s most famous work, this was originally written and recorded by Leonard Cohen in 1984 on his album Various Positions.
The song is about love which has soured and gone stale. Cohen used a lot of religious imagery, including references to some of the more notorious women in the bible.
Cohen: “Hallelujah is a Hebrew word [...]

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Je ziet ze niet vaak
want waar de massa is
daar zijn zij
niet
ze zijn ook niet met velen,
die vreemde figuren
maar zij produceren
de paar goede schilderijen
de paar goede boeken
en andere kunstwerken
en de besten
onder die vreemde lieden
produceren misschien wel niets
zij zijn
zelf een
schilderij
zelf een
boek
zelf muziek
zelf een
kunstwerk
soms denk ik
dat ik
ze
zie-een
oude man
die op een
bepaalde manier
op een bepaalde
bank
zit
of
een bepaalde manier
waarmee
een jonge vrouw
in de [...]

“Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.”-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.

How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one [...]

Oblomov.
By Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich, 1812-1891.
Translated from the Russian by C. J. Hogarth
Notes by translator.
Reprint of the 1915 ed. published by Macmillan, New York.
ISBN 0-8376-0451-6 (Robert Bentley, Cambridge, Mass.)
First published in Russian 1858
First published in English 1915
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
PZ3.G5875Ob 1979 [PG3337.G6] 891.7′3′3 79-19061

This edition (oblomov.htm) is in one big file (about [...]

“If eyes were made for seeing, then Beauty is it’s own excuse for being.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Directed by
Luchino Visconti

Produced by
Goffredo Lombardo

Written by
Luchino Visconti
Story:
Suso Cecchi d’Amico

Starring
Alain Delon
Renato Salvatori
Annie Girardot
Katina Paxinou

Music by
Nino Rota

Cinematography
Giuseppe Rotunno

Editing by
Mario Serandrei

Release date(s)
Italy: 6 September 1960
US: 26 June 1961

Running time
177 minutes

Country
Italy / France

Language
Italian

“The avererage man is more interested in a women who is interested in him than he is in a woman”-Oblomov

“I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a women’s bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they’re not well manicured, you’ve got to wonder what the rest of her is like. I don’t want to get in bed with somebody and feel her gnarly feet.”-Oblomov
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world.Most people exist,that is all.”-Oscar Wilde

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”-Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

Well,I’ve been a fan of videogames all my life.Its just that….Oh well….
Oblomov

“The supreme object of life is to live.Few people live.It is true life only to realize one’s own perfection,to make one’s every dream a reality”-Oscar Wilde

Quote: (to himself:) “Wile E. Coyote. Su-u-u-uper Ge-e-enius.”

Totti and Cassano….

“When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.”-Antisthenes
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“A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. “-Franz Kafka

“I sacrificed my anonymity”-Jeff Buckley

“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.”

“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”-Henry Miller

Bukowski:Poetry and motion…

” There’s always been a lot of tension between Lois and me, and it’s not so much that I want to kill her, it’s just I want her …not to be alive, anymore. Ah, I sometimes wonder if all women are this difficult, and then I think to myself: My God, wouldn’t it be marvelous [...]

” Imagination is more important than intelligence and knowledge. “-Coen Brothers
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Gus Hansen has totally been dominating at Full Tilt Poker this month and yesterday he once again played very solid on both Hold’em (+$589k), Omaha (+$145k), Omaha Hi/Lo (+$152k) and HORSE (+$97k).
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Charles Bukowski
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“This post follows on from and should be read in conjunction with the recent article, Homeless Image and Stereotypes.
Every day, we walk past people in the streets without having the slightest clue that they are homeless because they do not fit the stereotypical image. Even of those that do fit the common-held image, you [...]