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When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. - William Arthur Ward

(part of the "shoebox" series)

more to come...

texture by les brumes

Novos pescadores

Only the love of God is greater than the love of a mother.

Somente o amor de Deus é maior que o amor de uma mãe.

"Often, while contemplating works of art, ... , I have felt entering into me a kind of vision of the childhood of their creators. Some little sorrow, some small pleasure of the child, inordinately inflated by an exquisite sensibility, become later on in the adult man, even without his knowing it, the basis of a work of art.... Genius is nothing but childhood clearly formulated, newly endowed with virile and powerful means of self-expression."

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, critic

"Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age.

The child is grown, and puts away childish things.

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

Nobody that matters, that is."

(Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet and author. "Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies," Wine From the Grapes (1934).)

"Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic—if it is pulled out I shall die."

(Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Danish philosopher. The Diary of Soren Keirkegaard, pt. 1, no. 26, 1847 entry)

and odd socks.