Past is experience,

Present is experiment

and Future is expectation.

Use your experience

in your experiments

to achieve your expectations.

(art by Marius Siergiejew) 

 

“A solitary, unused to speaking

of what he sees and feels,

has mental experiences

which are at once more intense

and less articulate than those

of a gregarious man.

They are sluggish,

yet more wayward,

and never without a melancholy tinge.

Sights and impressions

which others brush aside with a glance,

a light comment, a smile,

occupy him more than their due;

they sink silently in,

they take on meaning,

they become experience,

emotion, adventure.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us,

to beauty unfamiliar and perilous-to poetry.

But also, it gives birth to the opposite:

to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”

(Thomas Mann – Death in Venice)

(art by Michael Karcz)

"End? No. The journey doesn’t end here.

Death is just another path,

one that we all must take.

The grey rain curtain of this world

rolls back and all turns to silver glass.

And then you see it.

White shores, and beyond,

a far green country under a swift sunrise.”

(J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973))

(art by Oscar Chichoni)

"I want to live

Where they’ll change what they have done

I must die

cold and shunned by the sun

Why should I stay

Where there are people that hate

The things I need

and making me wait

They will teach you the hows 

instead of the why’s

They will turn your truth into lies..."

"But it is not necessary nor becoming

to make love too early in life

nor to let desire take hold of one.

It weakens youth 
to become too early possessed by desire 
which often will not leave one again.

It spoils and cripples the imagination."

(Men as Gods) 

(art by Nik Guerra) 

“Chess is a foolish expedient

for making idle people believe

they are doing something very clever,

when they are only wasting their time. ”

(George Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot)

"Lying is the Blackest Crime.

Where there are lies

there cannot be freedom."

(Men as Gods)

(art by Otto Rap)