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YOU NEED TO IMAGINE SOMETHING: Cholula (Mexico), watching the hill

Perhaps, it is necessary that you imagine something, watching this hill. What it conceals is invisible, but I want to tell you something, to whet your curiosity. What is visible in the eyes, I will describe: 365 churches and a city, built – in the sixteenth century – over the ruins of an ancient Indian center. The pre-Hispanic Cholula was …

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THIS IS FOR YOU: Poetry of Leonard Cohen

THIS IS FOR YOU This is for you, it is my full heart, it is the book I meant to read you when we were old. Now I am a shadow, I am restless as an empire. You are the woman who released me I saw you watching the moon. You did not hesitate to love me with it, I …

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FRANCISCO HERRERA THE ELDER (1576/1656): SPANISH PAINTER: The painter shades impeccable, the one that has given to a student named Velasquez

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GUSTAV KLIMT (1862/1918), AUSTRIAN PAINTER: The female body, allegories, portraits and landscapes, influenced by Japanese art

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WITHOUT YOU: Poetry, by John Keats (1795/1821)

WITHOUT YOU I can not exist without you. I forget about everything but to see you again: my life seems to stop there, I do not see ahead. You’ve absorbed. Right now I have a feeling as to dissolve: I would be very sad without hope to see you soon. I’d be afraid to break away from you. You have …

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MARC CHAGALL (1887/1985), RUSSIAN PAINTER : prison, exile and depression, but also the joy of life, in the brilliance of its colors

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A HILL NEXT TO THE SEA: To Guyan Mestras, France, between bullfighting and cookies with pine nuts

A long stretch of white sandy beaches and full of wind, but also ponds and woods. The Landes begin right at Guyan Mestras, and I offer my welcome in my home town – Arcachon – to accompany you to the highest dune of Europe. We will Pylat, rising to a height of 114 meters, over a hill of sand two …

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A SMALL NIGHT – Poetry, by Yukio Mishima (1925/1970)

A SMALL NIGHT A small night storm blows, saying falling is the essence of a flower, preceding those who hesitate. (Yukio Mishima) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Decay-Angel-Sea-Fertility/dp/009928457X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432713615&sr=1-1  

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AND NOT NEVER DIE – Poetry, by Boris Ryzyi (1974/2001)

AND NOT NEVER DIE A ship glazed, the door, the table, the bed. Living is hard and uncomfortable, but it is convenient to die. I’m relaxed and I think, maybe these white sheets wrapped him that today he’s gone to the other world. The faucet drips plan. Life, disheveled like a whore, she appears out of the fog and see …

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IVAN SHISHKIN (1832/1898), RUSSIAN PAINTER: Forest landscapes and poetic depiction of seasons in the wild nature of the woods

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