to wish y’all a goodnight

Franz Liszt
Un sospiro
Gyorgy Cziffra
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🖌Arthur Hughes, The Paned Heart or Sigh No More Ladies (det.), 1868

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Alfred Nobel is an Extraordinary Human Being!
October 21, 🎂🎉


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“A child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.”
Arthur Miller

🖌Krister Vikstrom🇸🇪Catch me if you can




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“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.”
William Faulkner

🖌Jonas Kunickas 🇱🇹 Dreamer









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Printmaker Julius John Lankes 1884 in Buffalo, New York. He provided illustrations for the leftist magazine The Liberator & enjoyed a long friendship with Robert Frost, illustrating his poetry. He also provided illustrations for Sherwood Anderson & Beatrix Potter.

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A voice…and, oh boy, what a voice….
Dinah Washington
Mad About The Boy
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…The sleepless nights I’ve had about the boy.
On the silver screen,
He melts my foolish heart in ev’ry single scene…

🖌Kostas Soutsos 🇬🇷

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to remember the great
Cesária Évora
Flôr Di Nha Esperança
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…This song
Is the dream of my hope
That has already reveal
That your love was false, oh flower…
(Transl.)

🖌Marina Khlebnikova🇷🇺Flowers of the Hope

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to Philip J. Fry from

Fry was August 14th, 1974. Internet sleuths deducted the date from Season 3, Episode 4 "The Luck of the Fryrish" when Fry was born at the exact time The New York Mets beat the Los Angeles Dodgers

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“I was happy to be involved in an art for the people and not for private drawing rooms. It was inexpensive, accessible to the general public,and it found a home in poor families as well as in more affluent circles.”
Alphonse Mucha
🖌Woman Watching a Burning Candle

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“All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.”
Joshua Reynolds
Lady Smith (Charlotte Delaval) and Her Children (George Henry, Louise, and Charlotte),1787
The Met

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Happy birthday to the wonderful Cheryl Ladd who is 71 today. Unforgettable Angel Kris Munroe in the original Charlie's Angels 😇

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62 urodziny świętuje dziś Vince Clarke, właśc. Vincent John Martin – angielski muzyk, założyciel zespołów Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly oraz Erasure.


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“Hippogriff,n. Animal…half horse and half griffin.The griffin was itself…half lion and half eagle.The hippogriff was…therefore,only one-quarter eagle,which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold.The study of zoology is full of surprises”
Ambrose Bierce

🖌Ingres

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for a moment of peaceful joy
Piotr Ilic Tchaikovsky
Waltz of Flowers (The Nutcracker)
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🖌Edgar Degas, Ballet - The Star (date unknown)
Musée d’Orsay

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Jemima Blackburn née Wedderburn was 1823. Forming part of our we have this beautiful copy of her 'Birds drawn from nature', 1868. Her observations of cuckoos laying eggs were used by Charles Darwin in 6th ed. of 'Origin of Species'.

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