the arcana of dreams Combinas poéticas Margarita Garcia Alonso

George Dunlop Leslie (1835 - 1921) - Her first place

 For it is in the arcana of dreams that existences merge and renew themselves, change and yet keep the same—like the soul of a musician in a fugue.
—      Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars 

Porque es en los arcanos de los sueños que las existencias se funden y se renuevan, el cambio y sin embargo mantienen el mismo como el alma de un músico en una fuga.
- Bram Stoker, La Joya de las Siete Estrellas

Karl Harald Alfred Broge (1870 - 1955) - Morning sunlight, 1919

 All others are outside myself; I lock my door and bar them out The turmoil, tedium, gad-about.　

I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?

If I could once lay down myself, And start self-purged upon the race That all must run ! Death runs apace.
—      Christina Rossetti

Emile Lévy (1826 - 1890) - Venus and Cupid, 1862

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
—       Winston S. Churchill 

 Jules Frédéric Ballavoine (1855 - 1901) - Two bathers

 Victor Gabriel Gilbert (1847 - 1933) - Anticipation

 We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art—we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.
—      Anaïs Nin, In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays 

No escapamos a la filosofía, la psicología y el arte-que vamos allí para restaurar nuestro ser destrozadas en los enteros.
- Anaïs Nin, a favor del hombre sensible y otros ensayos

 Luise Max-Ehrler (1850 - ?) - The latest trends

Lord Frederic Leighton (1830 - 1896) - Amarilla

 Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
—      Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

 Ahora no es tiempo de pensar en lo que no tienes. Piensa en lo que puedes hacer con lo que hay.
- Ernest Hemingway, El viejo y el mar

 William Dacres Adams (1864 - 1951) - Chivalric love

 Reginald Granville Eves (1876 - 1941) - A nymph beside a pool, 1910

 A Berlin porcelain plaque, late 19th century

Benedetto Gennari (1633 - 1715) - Diana and Endymion

 Torment yourself as little as possible, then you’ll torment me less.
—      Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

 Auguste-Alexandre Hirsch (1833 - 1912) - Suzanne

Stop minimizing and discounting your feelings. You have every right to feel the way you do. Your feelings may not always be logical, but they are always valid. Because if you feel something, then you feel it and it’s real to you. It’s not something you can ignore or wish away. It’s there, gnawing at you, tugging at your core, and in order to find peace, you have to give yourself permission to feel whatever it is you feel. You have to let go of what you’ve been told you should or shouldn’t feel. You have to drown out the voices of people who try to shame you into silence. You have to listen to the sound of your own breathing and honor the truth inside you. Because despite what you may believe, you don’t need anyone’s validation or approval to feel what you feel. Your feelings are inherently right and true. They’re important and they matter — you matter — and it is more than okay to feel what you feel. Don’t let anyone, including yourself, convince you otherwise.

—	Daniell Koepke

 Archibald Wakley (1873 - 1906) - A Royal princess, 1903

 Oswald von Glehn (b.1858) - Boreas and Orinthyia

 Gustave Léonard De Jonghe (1829 - 1893) - In the salon

Donat Nonotte (1708 - 1785) - Portrait of a lady taking tea

 When one has an existentialist view of the world, like mine, the paradox of human life is precisely that one tries to be and, in the long run, merely exists.”
Simone de Beauvoir

 Edgar Bundy (1862 - 1922) - The florist, 1893

Arthur Hughes (1832 - 1915) - A birthday picnic, portraits of the children of William and Anne Pattinson

 All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason
—      Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

 Todo nuestro conocimiento comienza con los sentidos, procede a continuación a la comprensión, y termina con la razón. No hay nada más alto que la razón
- Immanuel Kant, Crítica de la razón pura