«Влюбленные», 1959 г.
Борис Валентинович Щербаков (1916-1995)

“And never have I felt so deeply
at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.” ~ Albert Camus

©️Mariam Sitchinava

'Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.'

Carl Sagan

~ Marco Guerra
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Marilyn Monroe

📷©️ Ed Feingersh
NYC
1955

'Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.'

— Rabindranath Tagore

'We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.'

— Iris Murdoch

Gina Lollobrigida & Yuri Gagarin in Moscow (1961)

'When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.'

— Maya Angelou

'When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.'

— Zhuangzi

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“That best portion of a man's life,
his little, nameless, unremembered acts
of kindness and love.”

― William Wordsworth
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Katia Chausheva

Composers Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich and Aram Khachaturian. USSR, 1945

'The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.'

Kahlil Gibran

📷Margaret Durow

Helena Christensen & Cindy Crawford photographed for Vogue, 1991

'People love to talk about happiness. But no one knows that the greatest happiness is in understanding.'

— Konstantin Paustovsky

'The movement of life has its rest in its own music.'

Rabindranath Tagore

'No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.'

— Virginia Woolf

'I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.'

— Langston Hughes

🖌 'April' by Vitaly Vlasov-Klimov

'Spring Day', 1958
Yuri Petrovich Kugach (1917 - 2013)

“April… is full of whispers, full of sighs”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

📷©️ Fiona Louise Larkins