greatest still life

Francisco de Zurbarán, Baroque Gravitas

how to go bankrupt

“How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Klondike

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
- Jack London

on Vermeer

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go for it

“Since the danger of living in wretchedness is greater than the danger of dying soon, he is a fool who refuses to stake a little time and win a hazard of great gain.”
– Attributed to Seneca the Younger

vocab

"Schlimmbesserung": A German word which describes an effort to make things better that actually ends up making things worse.

Global Hospice Care Ranked

Source here.

lantern of light

Chartres Cathedral

super moon

“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

walking through Van Gogh

Story here.

stone carving

progenitor

“It is the historian’s function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.”
– Jacob Burckhardt

Happiest cities in America

Source: WalletHub

bohemian

“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.” – Denis Diderot

enlightenment groundwork

“I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.”
– Baruch Spinoza

Inferno

"Here's the path out of Hell to Paradise."
- On Dante