seventy five

Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same. *

* Franz Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828)

seventy four

seventy three

“You know very well you're not real.'  

'I AM real!' said Alice and began to cry.

'You won't make yourself a bit realler by crying,' 

Tweedledee remarked: 'there's nothing to cry about.”  *

* Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)  (27 January 1832 - 14 January 1898)

seventy two

... let us glorify freedom’s twilight ... 

Let us glorify the deadly weight

the people’s leader lifts with tears. 

Let us glorify the dark burden of fate ...  *

* Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (15 January 1891 - 27 December 1938)