Aesthetic Blasphemy

Anvil and hammer

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil bear - when you are the hammer,...

Living one's own life

I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account; for, beside that before he has fairly learned it I...

No wonder

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ~Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina) (Image...

then my heart with pleasure fills

For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of...

Rejecting Despair

“Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair" ~ Elie Wiesel