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Love is a temporary madness.

It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.

Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

- Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernières.

Uploaded on Mar 2, 2009

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In Australia alone is to be found the Grotesque, the Weird, the strange scribblings of nature learning how to write. Some see no beauty in our trees without shade, our flowers without perfume, our birds who cannot fly, and our beasts who have not yet learned to walk on all fours. But the dweller in the wilderness acknowledges the subtle charm of this fantastic land of monstrosities. He becomes familiar with the beauty of loneliness. Whispered to by the myriad tongues of the wilderness he learns the language of the barren and the uncouth, and can read the hieroglyphs of the haggard gum-trees, blown into odd shapes, distorted with fierce hot winds, or cramped with cold nights, when the Southern Cross freezes in a cloudless sky of icy blue. The phantasmagoria of that wild dreamland termed the Bush interprets itself, and the Poet of our desolation begins to comprehend why Esau loved his heritage of desert sand better than the bountiful richness of Egypt.

- Extracted from Marcus Clarke's preface to 'Sea Spray and Smoke Drift' (Adam Lindsay Gordon)

This beautiful landscape in Kinglake, Victoria, has been destroyed by one of the many bushfires raging out of control across Australian states. The destruction caused by bushfire in Victoria is considered to be one of the worst, if not the worst, natural disaster in Australia's history. The cost of the Victorian bushfires is still being counted, it currently stands at 171 lives lost, 750 homes destroyed, and more than 5000 people displaced. Read more here.

The Red Cross and National Australia Bank are running the Victorian Bushfire Appeal to assist those affected by the bushfires. All National Australia Bank branches will be collecting donations.

You can make a donation by direct debit with these details: Victoria Bushfire Relief Fund; BSB: 082-001; Account: 860 046 797.

You can also make a donation online here: www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineDonations.asp

Uploaded on Feb 8, 2009

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In the past artists represented things they had seen on earth, things they liked seeing or might have liked to see. Today they reveal the relativity of visible things; they express their belief that the visible is only an isolated aspect in relation to the universe as a whole, and that other, invisible truths are the overriding factors. Things appear to assume a broader and more diversified meaning, often seeming to contradict the rational experience of yesterday. The artist strives to express the essential character of the accidental.

- Paul Klee, Berlin, 1920.

Uploaded on Feb 6, 2009

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You live wherever you live,
you do whatever work you do,
you talk however you talk,
you eat whatever you eat,
you wear whatever clothes you wear,
you look at whatever images you see...

You're living however you can.
You are whoever you are.

- On Film, Wim Wenders

Uploaded on Feb 3, 2009

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Dar um jeito

Uploaded on Jun 21, 2008

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