Wings of Leaf and Living Ink

In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art‐the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard's canvases‐beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden.
Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.
Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“To be godless is probably the first step to innocence, ” he said, “to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost. ”
“So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions. ”
“An absence of need for illusions, ” he said. “ A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes. ”
Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds ‐ justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.
Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

Blade Runner ‐ Love Theme, Vangelis

Love is Blue ‐ Paul Mauriat, piano cover ‐ Jaeyong Kang

Medley In Love, HAUSER

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