Life After Gravity

Edgar Degas (1834-1917) - Mlle La La at the Circus Fernando, 1879


'The greatest danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.'

Michelangelo

The Gift Of Banishment

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarotti Simoni (1475-1564) - The Fall and The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, 1509-10


'The only paradise is paradise lost.'

Marcel Proust

Impossible Dreams

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarotti Simoni (1475-1564) - Moses (detail), 1515



'I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.'

Michelangelo

Don't Put The Blame On Mame

Michelangelo di Ludovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) - Adam and Eve (The Sistine Chapel), 1509-1512


"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."

William Shakespeare

"Sin is geographical."

Bertrand Russell

"Praise is the bait of sin."

Plato

"To sin is a human business, but to justify sins is a devilish business."

Leo Tolstoy

"Other men's sins are before our eyes, but our own are behind our backs."

Seneca