For #MosaicMonday, a sacro-idyllic #emblema from Hadrian's Villa. Notice the famously priapic goat seeking an anatomy lesson from a phallic votive tablet, alongside an unusually androgynous #Dionysus in female dress. A bit of rustic irony for an imperial dining room. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Perhaps this is where deep boredom begins: When the days pass one after another, but none of them have the flavor of one's own self.
#Dionysus: The Madman Who Became Wise.
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Maybe this is what creativity is:
Not giving the world back as you received it.
#Dionysus: The Madman Who Became Wise.
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The one who thinks from within himself, even if he makes a mistake, finds something to live for within his mistake.
#Dionysus: The Madman Who Became Wise.
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Perhaps this is what authenticity is: opening the doors of your house of being to the world, without giving its key to the world.
#Dionysus: The Madman Who Became Wise.
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The sea is a sea for thousands of people, but everyone sees it from their own shore.
#Dionysus: The Madman Who Became Wise.
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The mirror does not always show the truth; sometimes it only shows the image that the world has already taught us to see.
#Dionysus: The Madman Who Became Wise.
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Perhaps this is one of the deepest forms of authenticity: living even your own mistakes, rather than the borrowed truth of others.

#Dionysus: The Madman Who Became Wise.
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Once upon a time, you thought so that you could live life; today, you think so that you don't lose life.
#Dionysus: The Madman Who Became Wise.
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Sometimes, the saddest moment in life is not when a bird falls; it is when the bird still has wings, but no longer remembers the sky.
#Dionysus: The Madman Who Became Wise.
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Praise be to Dionysus; Lord of Vines, Son of Semele, Beloved by god and man. Prince of Madness. Liberator and Breaker of Chains. The Bloody-Handed Vengeance, and Protector of Immigrants. The Stage Master. Wild King.
Devotional piece. Be respectful if commenting. #art #Hellenic #dionysus #offering

Sometimes you get so busy surviving that you leave yourself somewhere in the middle of the road.
#Dionysus: The Madman Who Became Wise.
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Sometimes, the craziest person in a city is the one who still hasn't believed city's sleep.
#Dionysus: The Madman Who Became Wise.
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Some thoughts are like the scent of fruit; if you peel their skin before they are ripe, you'll get nothing but the sour taste of unripe fruit.
#Dionysus: The Madman Who Became Wise.
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🪷 Happy #WorldBeardDay ... Día Mundial de la Barba ... Dia Barba do Mundo. First Saturday in September. #BeardDay image courtesy #CássioCotrimII, who suggests #Antinoos probably didn't want a beard at first but then it grew on him. #Lansdowne #Antinoo / #Dionysus Fitzwilliam Museum. 🪷

You don't always need a knife to clip a bird's wings; sometimes you just need to make the sky so distant and the flight so costly that the bird chooses the ground itself.
#Dionysus: The Madman Who Became Wise.
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The modern world did not take away thinking from humans; it only raised the price of thinking so much that many gave it up themselves.
#Dionysus: The Madman Who Became Wise.
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The world didn't say "don't think"; it said "don't delay," and between these two sentences, the fate of a thought that needed time to take shape was lost.
#Dionysus: The Madman Who Became Wise.
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