Ernst Haas & Voltaire

Photo by Ernst Haas, Misfits, 1960




All men are by nature free,
you have therefore
an undoubted liberty to depart
whenever you please,
but
will have many and great difficulties
to encounter
in passing the frontiers.

Voltaire
Candide

Brooke Shaden & Roberto Bolaño

Brooke Shaden




So everything lets us down
 including curiosity and honesty
and what we love best.
Yes, said the voice,
but cheer up ,
 it is fun in the end.

Roberto Bolano
2666

Carlos Pereira & Nina

Photo by Carlos Pereira



(...) But I' m a woman
Can't you see what I am
I live and breathe for you
What good does it do
If I ain't got you
(...)

To Love Somebody
Nina Simone

Emmanuelle Brisson & Carl Sagan

Farfalle, by Emmanuelle Brisson




We are like butterflies who flutter for a day
and think it is
forever.

Carl Sagan

Julia Margaret Cameron & Lev Tolstoj

Photo by Julia Margaret Cameron,
The parting of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, 1874



I think...
if it is true that
there are
as many minds as there are heads,
then
there are
as many kinds of love
as there are hearts.

Lev Tolstoj
Anna Karenina

Julia Margaret Cameron & Aristotle

Photo by Julia Margaret Cameron, I wait (Rachel Gurney), 1872




Patience is bitter,

but its fruit is sweet.

Aristotle

Pavel Baňka & Robert Browning

Photo by Pavel Banka, Vertical Construction, 1985




My sun sets to rise again.

Robert Browning