Winter lake

Window

Future

Frankenstein

A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved, Caesar would have spared his country, America would have been discovered more gradually, and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed.
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Nothing

Niente auguri di buon natale, io non ci credo. Grazie.

Orbetello

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

Montiano

The charm and the fascinating mystery of nature are perhaps the only key that we have to try to open the door that separates us from the truth.
Romano Battaglia

Capalbio

The wise learn many things from their enemies; for caution preserves all things. From a friend you could not learn this, but your foe immediately obliges you to learn it. For example, the states have learned from enemies, and not from friends, to build lofty walls, and to possess ships of war. And this lesson preserves children, house, and possessions.
Aristophanes

Pereta

It is at night that faith in light is admirable.
Edmond Rostand

Feniglia

The sea is an ancient idiom I can't decipher.
Jorge Luis Borges

Poetry

Nature is nothing but an enigmatic poetry.
Michel de Montaigne

Soul, time & space

The soul goes through time and space, and it is not as the eye, that believes that the sky starts where the horizon begins.
Ambrogio Bazzero

Pleasant life

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and justly without living pleasantly. Whenever any one of these is lacking, when, for instance, the man is not able to live wisely, though he lives honorably and justly, it is impossible for him to live a pleasant life.
Epicurus

Destination

One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.
Henry Miller

Winners

Winners find a way, losers find excuses.

Anonymus

Admire

Admired too much is by children, not admire anything is stupid.
Niccolò Tommaseo

Nostalgia

Lomo effect

Don't Think, Just Shoot!
Lomography motto
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In questa foto ho provato a simulare l'effetto Lomo, citando il motto della lomografia.
La foto originale la trovate qua.

In this photo I try to simulate the LOMO effect, quoting lomography motto.
The original photo is here.

Past

We must adapt to present, even if the past seems better.
Baltasar Graciàn

True colors

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.
Jules Feiffer