“Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.” -Octavio Paz
Art
Igor Zhuk
Rose Couch
“There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.” -Arthur Conan Doyle
Sarah Sitkin
“So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.” -Jorge Luis Borges
Salvatore Battaglia
“Our common actions in reality are simply the sackcloth covering which hides the cloth-of-gold – the meaning of the pattern.” -Lawrence Durrell
Feng Yangkun
“In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as a trifle yet.” -Wilkie Collins
Damian Koprowski
I know beginnings, I know endings too,
and life-in-death, and something else
I’d rather not recall just now.
-Anna Akhmatova
Denise Stewart-Sanabria
“I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter’s evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream… I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people’s tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.” -Mark Twain
