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Designers Guild Cecilia Trevira Collection

"Each item in a collection has its' own story, its' own memory - the search, the day you bought it, who you were with, the vacation, etc.; a collection provides a special satisfaction & a sense of achievement."

Tricia Guild
(from Tricia Guild's book Design & Detail)

Sandy K

[above image via Designers Gulid]

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Mandela (2008)

"To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects & enhances the lives of others."

Nelson Mandela

Sandy K

[above image via wikipedia]

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George Eliot aged 30 by the Swiss artist Alexandre Louis François d'Albert Durade (1804–86)

It's never too late to be what you might have been

George Eliot (1819-1880)

pen name of Mary Anne Evans, writer of The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch & Daniel Deronda amongst other works.

Sandy K

[above image from Wikipedia]

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Collage from V&A Pattern series William Morris

"If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."

William Morris

English writer & artist, 1834-1896

Sandy K

[above image collaged by Sandy K]

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BBC 1995 production of Persuasion

"All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone."

Anne Elliot in conversation with Captain Harville

(Persuasion by Jane Austen)

"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years & a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you."

Captain Frederick Wentworth in a letter to Anne Elliot

(Persuasion by Jane Austen)

One of the best lines ever in a novel or film, "You pierce my soul."

If you are a Jane Austen fan, BBC production fan, Period Drama fan or in fact just a good film fan, do yourself a favour & get a copy of the BBC's 1995 production of Persuasion starring Amanda Root as Anne Elliot & Ciaran Hinds as Captain Frederick Wentworth. In my opinion it is the best adaptation of a Jane Austen work by far as it does not "pretty" up the actors nor the costumes. It is a grounded & more realistic portrayal of the people and times of Jane Austen. One of my all time favourite films.

"You pierce my soul." I swoon!

Sandy K
[above image via Amazon]

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Behind the Mask (Alli Jiang photographed by Jingna Zhang)

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man

Shakespeare

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 What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sandy K