Happy thou art not; For what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get, And what thou hast, forget'st. Shakespeare, Measure for Measure . photo Jamie Heide . #photography #Skakespeare .

D'ailleurs, le réel n'a jamais intéressé personne. Il est par excellence le lieu de désenchantement... Baudrillard ~ Simulacres... . photo Inge Schuster #photography #philosophy

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. Shakespeare ~ Measure for Measure . photo niphisi . #photography #Shakespeare

Lang Lang ~ Chopin youtube.com/watch?v=EvNs... #Music #photography .

#dance #musicsky youtube.com/watch?v=z_Hu...

If life is always varied, unexpected, and changing, illusion is monotonous, forever harping on the same string. Calvino ~ Why read the classics? . photo Inge Schuster . #photography #Literature

The Astrologer It's impossible, so more worthy to be believed. Goethe ~ Faust . photo © niphisi #photography #Literature

#MatthewsMonthOfMusic October #MusicChallenge #NewMusicFriday 10/24. 🌟 A song about an alternative lifestyle ✨On a quitté la terre (alternative lifestyle)✨ Léman - Adieu Musique (2025) 🎙️ Les Étoiles youtu.be/i0iX4Q9W6Nk?...

The surest means of not becoming unhappy is not to desire to become very happy... Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena . photo niphisi #photography #philosophy

...happiness and pleasure are a fata morgana, which, visible from afar, vanish as we approach. Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena photo George Natsioulis #photography #philosophy

El que no ha tenido un perro, no sabe lo que es querer y ser querido. Schopenahuer, Parerga... . photo Kültür Tava #photography

Nice way to end the weekend. This year haven't photographed a Townsends Warbler. I was testing a telephoto lens, and one landed close (too close) to me. He kindly let me scramble to adjust settings. Thought I was too close, but got a couple from a large burst. Next will try PS' "Select Image" tool.

Waiting awaits nothing. Blanchot · Awaiting Oblivion . photo Kathrin Federer #photography #literature

Waiting is unaware of and destroys that which it awaits. Blanchot · Awaiting Oblivion . photo niphisi #photography #literature

Waiting is instancy always without the present instant. Blanchot · Awaiting Oblivion photo niphisi #photography #literature

To love is, essentially, to wish to be loved. Lacan ~ Seminar XI . photo polly_in_wonderland . #photography #psychology

Il n'y a d'amour généreux que celui qui se sait en même temps passager et singulier. Camus ~ Le Don Juanisme . photo Anja Bührer . #photography #literature

Chaque mot dépasse l'objet qu'il prétend désigner. Camus, L'Homme révolté . photo Donald Boyd #photography #Literature

A thousand roads lead away from the goal, one leads to it. Montaigne ~ Essays I 9 . photo © George Natsioulis #photography #literature

Una musica per Umberto Eco: Italian Polka youtu.be/-3WEHWoBOz4?... #music

There is no discipline of forgetting... Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum . photo Rimantas Bikulčius #photography

Superstition brings bad luck. Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum #photography Juan Brufal #literature

La canzone dell'amore perduto youtu.be/LRkANhMpgiA?... #music

Parlare d'amore è di per sè un godimento. Lacan youtu.be/mKlfokZ7KGM?... #music

Dans l'immense, comment deviner? René Char #photography Petros & Claudia Koublis #literature

#CatchThePhrase #MusicChallenge | 75 La vie parisienne, Act II, Scene 17: "Par saint Crépin! Par saint Crépin!" Offenbach - La vie parisienne (Mono Version) - Act II, Scene 17: "Par saint Crépin! Par saint Crépin!" youtu.be/vL-GbH4EIko?... bsky.app/profile/sier...

#MatthewsMonthOfMusic October #MusicChallenge 10/14. A song you love, sung in a language you don’t speak ATEEZ(에이티즈) youtu.be/jriUlWlCdp0?...

Amour est de faire "Un". Lacan, Séminaire 20 . #photography Polly #Lacan

L'amour, chaque fois qu'il se manifeste comme amour pur et simple... est irrésistiblement comique. Lacan, Séminaire 8 . #photography Polly #Lacan

Mais peut-être notre cœur n'est-il formé que de la réponse qui n'est point donnée ? René Char, Feullets d'Hypnos #photography Morten Lasskogen #literature

One must make music to obtain of silence. Vladimir Jankélévitch youtu.be/0bp5suzzMoc?... #music #phylosophy

Je sais que je mourrai, mais je ne le crois pas. Vladimir Jankélévitch, La mort #photography Andhika Ramadhian #philosophy

Music is the silence of words, like poetry is the silence of prose. Vladimir Jankélevitch Somewhere in the Unfinished #photography Anphidhika Ramadhian #phylosophy

La musica è invisibile, perché è qualcosa che si sviluppa nel tempo – che è impalpabile e imponderabile. Vladimir Jankélevitch. Pensare la morte? #photography Hiroshi Sugimoto #phylosophy

To be loved constitutes the goal and satisfaction of the narcissistic object choice. Freud ~ Introduction to narcissism . . photo © Thomas V. #photography

Che voglia di piangere ho! youtu.be/vwTF8YPTd-g?... #music #PaoloConte

Les hommes croient ce qu'ils désirent... Jankélévitch, Du mensonge photo niphisi . #photography

...on peut apprendre ce que l'on sait déjà, comme on peut être surpris par l'événement le plus attendu... Jankélévitch, Du malintedu . photo Donald Boyd #photography

Alas, how love can trifle with itself. Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen... youtu.be/dR6CGp4WJ6w?... #music #piano #Gluck

L'ennui: temps enrayé. Cioran ~ Cahiers . foto © niphisi #photography

Je sais que tout est irréel, mais je ne sais comment le prouver. Cioran ~ Cahiers . photo Inge Schuster #photography

Desire is a race toward nothingness. Calvino ~ Why read the classics? . #photography

To be loved constitutes the goal and satisfaction of the narcissistic object choice. Freud, Introduction to narcissism . photo Jamie Heiden #photography

At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Freud ~ Civilization and Its Discontents . photo Andhika Ramadhian #photography

If there is an object of your desire, it is nothing other than yourself. Lacan, Seminar 10 photo Andre Kohn #photography

Suffering was it, and impotence —that created all backworlds. Nietzsche ~ Zarathustra photo © Mikko Lagerstedt #photography

Desire is a race toward nothingness. Calvino ~ Why read the classics? . photo Rams #photography

Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction. Baudrillard ~ The Other by Itself photo Thomas V. #photography

Suffering was it, and impotence —that created all backworlds. Nietzsche ~ Zarathustra photo © Mikko Lagerstedt #photography