‘O Man, so long as you are
free you will cherish the
sea!
The sea is your looking glass; you contemplate your own soul
in the infinite unfolding of its waves, while your mind is a no less bitter gulf.’
Charles Baudelaire, 1852
The sea is your looking glass; you contemplate your own soul
in the infinite unfolding of its waves, while your mind is a no less bitter gulf.’
Charles Baudelaire, 1852
Claude Monet, Shadows on the Sea, The Cliffs at Pourville, 1882
Charles-François Daubigny, The Beach at Villerville-sur-mer(Calvados), Sunset, 1873
Edouard Manet, On the Beach: Suzanne and Eugène Manet at Berck, 1873
Gustave Courbet, The Sea-Arch at Etretat, 1869
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o3d5CxGmJE
Everything stirred,everything smiled within him. Naturally, he did not know her or her name, or, moreover, why she had fallen asleep on the shore; but he was very pleased by this. He liked pictures that were accompanied neither by an explanatory text nor by a caption. The impression such a picture makes is far more powerful; its content, unencumbered by words, becomes boundless, affirming all conjectures and thoughts.
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She sat down and hugged her knees. She leaned towards the sea and gazed off at the horizon with eyes that had grown large and in which nothing grown-up remained at all-with the eyes of a child. Everything she had awaited so long and so fervently was taking place there, at the end of the world.
Scarlet Sails / Alexander Grin / 1923
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi7sVniYx4I
Scarlet Sails / Alye Parusa / 1961 / d. Alexandr Ptushko /
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