amicus-noctis

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Photos: Young Stig Dagerman and young August Strindberg, two of the most famous and loved swedish authors

Translation by me.

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Painting: Portrait of Machiavelli by Santi di Tito

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“Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.”― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Painting: "The School of Athens" by Raphael

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"Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” ― Ovid

Painting: Detail, work in progress by Lingly (https://linglyart.com)

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“I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.” ― Herman Hesse, Demian

Painting: "Self Portait" by Claude Buck

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“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.”

― Shakespeare, Henry V

Painting: Interior with Woman Standing at the Table" by Vilhelm Hammershøi

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"Dionysus is a god, a god of transformation. To be in his presence is to lose oneself, to become one with the primal forces of nature."  

― Euripides, The Bacchae

Painting: "The Bacchanal of the Andrians" by Tizian

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“I say let the world go to hell,  but I should always have my tea.”       ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

Painting: "Old Man drinking Herbal Tea" by Albert Anker

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"We should depart from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa  — blessing it rather than in love with it."  ― Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Painting: "Odysseus and Calypso" by Frank Buchser

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“Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...”― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

Panting: "Nude I" by Edvard Munch (1913)

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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

Painting: "Sorrowing Old Man (At Eternity's Gate)" by Vincent van Gogh

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“If music be the food of love, play on" ― William Shakespeare

Painting: "Suonatore di liuto" by Caravaggio

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“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Painting: "Figures on a Moonlit Balcony" by Guy Rose

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“For the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops.”― Karl Ove Knausgård, My Struggle 1

Painting: "The Patient" by Vasily Polenov

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“The descent into Hell is easy” ― Virgil, The Aeneid

Painting: "Dante and Virgile in Hell" by Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois

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I decided to start a youtube channel where I review lesser known classics! Here is the first video, a book review of Franz Kafka's "Letter to Father"

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCSlH0h5WKM&t=100s 

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“Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.” ― Homer, The Odyssey

Painting: Detail from "Belisarius" by by Francois-Andre Vincent