Life Archives - The Final Paradox

No Longer Mourn for Me When I am Dead

No longer mourn for me when I am dead,
Than you shall hear the surly…

By William Shakespeare

The Soul of the Rose by John William Waterhouse

The Flowers of Your Garden

My soul is alight with your infinitude of stars. Your world has broken upon me…

By Rabindranath Tagore

Self Portrait by Joaquín Sorolla

Letters/Reflections

Let Life Happen to You

You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you,…

By Rainer Maria Rilke

Beauty of Fleeting Life

So Much Beauty

I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second…

Frosty sunrise by Elioth Gruner

Three Days

So much to do: so little done!
Ah! yesternight I saw the sun
Sink beamless…

By James Roberts Gilmore

Ramon Canudas, sick convalescent by Santiago Rusiñol

Why Have I Lived?

I run through the memory of my past in its entirety and can’t help asking…

By Mikhail Lermontov

Abbey among Oak Trees by Caspar David Friedrich

A Veiled Stranger

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the…

The Three Fates by Giorgio Ghisi

A Grace of Fate

I cannot bend the happenings of the world to my will: I am completely powerless.…

By Ludwig Wittgenstein

Self-portrait by José Tagarro

So We Live

Who turned us thus around, so we,
no matter what, have the pose
of one…

By Rainer Maria Rilke

A painting in the style of Vincent van Gogh depicting a painter.

The Madness of Art

It is glory–to have been tested, to have had our little quality and cast our…