“Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression; they exist where a word has never intruded.”

Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet

'He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.'

Thomas Carlyle
Past and Present

'Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.'

John Lubbock
The Use of Life

'Écoutez les sages, vous entendrez des paroles sévères. Au sortir de l'enfance, la sagesse nous paraît triste; mais elle devient ensuite une jouissance pour le coeur, parce qu'elle s'accorde avec la nature des choses.'

Senancour
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Henry de Montherlant, Carnets 1930-1944

Ma sculpture est terminée ! Je l'ai intitulée 'Le livre'.
J'ai mis beaucoup de temps à la faire et comme d'habitude, la finition est très rigoureuse. Le bois est mis en valeur et un beau veinage apparaît.

Eveline David-Valette
Sculpture sur bois
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'A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light.'

Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Spiritual Laws'

'It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.'

Confucius
The four books

'Since people, according to Proust, often do not understand themselves very well, since they have an interest in concealing things about themselves even from those closest to them...'

Milton Hindus
The Proustian Vision

La Caverne de Platon ou 'l'embarras du philosophe'
(extrait, 4 min)

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Ce qui fait l’artiste profond, mystérieux et tragique, c’est le fauve amour de la nature et la pratique sauvage de la solitude, traversés de temps à autre par les stridents appels du regret et les brusques coups de couteau de la nostalgie -  M. Rollinat - urlz.fr/qoa7

'A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.'

Mahatma Gandhi
Communal Unity

'Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.'

Pythagoras
The Symbols