Chopin - Waltz No. 7

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

Oscar Wilde

The Serendipity of Daily Life

Street Scene, Portugal

Photo by W. Robert Moore

Utopia

Utopia is an ideal community or society possessing a perfect socio-politico-legal system. The word was imported from Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia (vide picture), describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean.

The term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempt to create an ideal society, and fictional societies portrayed in literature. It has spawned other concepts, most prominently dystopia (societies with repressive social control systems).

Famous quotes

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

(1809 - 1865) 

Maya tombs, Honduras

"Wait, wait, Mr. Photographer ! I will get out of the picture in a second."

"Ups... Sorry, Sir. But I believe people won't notice me running."

Mazurka

From Luchino Visconti's "Il Gattopardo".

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  A painter paints pictures on canvas.

But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

Leopold Stokowski
(1882 - 1977)

Natural wonders

 A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.

Volcanic sunset

A cloud of ash from Chile's Puyehue volcano, which began erupting on June 4, creates a golden-hued sunset near the mountain resort of san Martín de Los Andes in Argentina on June 12.

Alejandro Sanz - Desde Cuando

Softly love and to love softly

Softly love and to love softly.
Dew on the sycamore branch
by the creaking gate,
where my heart hurries afterwards,
through the path of wheat along the briar
to that stone under which I lie.

Unknown 

Senza Fine

Along The Romantic Road

Strange but True

Enchanted Nature

Claude Monet

"Camille Monet and her son Jean"

(1875)

Famous quotes

Swords will always be sharpen,

bullets harden and retaliation

fasten, but none shall ever

equal the power of knowledge.

Unknown

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Vienna

Verdi - Nabucco

The Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid statue was a present from brewer Carl Jacobsen (The Carlsberg Breweries) to the city of Copenhagen, made by a then little known sculptor called Edvard Erichsen. The Little Mermaid was unveiled at Langelinje in 1913, as part of a general trend in Copenhagen in those days, selecting classical and historical figures to be used as decorations in the city's parks and public areas.

The Little Mermaid symbolizes the fairy tale by Danish author and poet Hans Christian Andersen, the story of a young mermaid who fell in love with a prince who lived on land, and often came up to the edge of the water to look for her love.