#fernando

North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

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Once I married Fernando, I became invisible. ↗

— Esther Williams

#fernando #i #invisible #married #once

Father Fernando did every thing in his power to assist the sick; and although he arrived much reduced in flesh, he did not become ill, and is now well. ↗

— Junipero Serra

#arrived #assist #become #did #every

With a combination of proper lighting and climate control he managed to achieve a different ecological niche in each gallery. In the African section, where the imbrications of Augustine, Mafouz and Okri lay decomposing, he grew sorghum and Dioscorea yams. In the Chinese gallery where the Tao Te Ching and countless Confucian annotations moldered, he grew rice, crab apples and barley. Over the poems of Neruda and Borges himself, he grew potatoes. Each plant in this new Eden he lovingly tainted with the virus of civilization - from the short story "Resurrection ↗

— Victor Fernando R. Ocampo

#love

All letters of love are Ridiculous. They wouldn’t be love letters if they were not Ridiculous. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#letters #love #pessoa #poem #ridiculous