Chasing the Sun

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já encomendado.

Flip

[garry winogrand]

sai mai

sai mai with her adopted babies, at the sriracha tiger zoo in thailand
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to---

one word is too often profaned

for me to profane it,

one feeling too falsely disdained

for thee to disdain it;

one hope is too like despair

for prudence to smother,

and pity from thee more dear

than that from another.

i can give not what men call love,

but wilt thou accept not

the worship the heart lifts above

and the heaven reject not-

the desire of the moth for the star,

of the night for the morrow,

the devotion to something afar

from the sphere of our sorrow?

percy bysshe shelley

congo basin 22.10.2009 - 26.10.2009

saint jerome writing

caravaggio, saint jerome writing

[saint john's cathedral, la valletta, malta]

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wonders of water

wonders of water, lillian bassman

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uma vez alguém perguntou ao escritor e jornalista polaco ryszard kapuscinski o que mais o impressionava em áfrica. kapuscinski, não hesitou: "a luz!" é isto: onde uns vêem luz outros apenas distinguem sombras. os que vêem sombras constroem muros para se protegerem. tendem a ser fanáticos construtores de muros.

josé eduardo agualusa, as mulheres do meu pai
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starlight and the presence of trees and the sound of the brook all entered into the dimly lit room, so that between each person and the next, and between the words they said, there was a certain space for shadows, night-wind, and silence.

ursula k. le guin, city of illusions
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whispering light

jesca hoop, whispering light

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