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“Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures, in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete bestiality, and it all comes from lying continually to others and to himself.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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Michael Kenna

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The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth they can accept about themselves without running away.

Leland Val Van De Wall

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– Oscar Wilde

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Father Thrift and his animal friends - Joseph Charles Sindelar - 1918 - via Internet Archive

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“Trying to control the world? I see you won’t succeed. The world is a spiritual vessel and cannot be controlled. Those who control, fail. Those who grasp, lose.”

— Laozi, Daodejing, Addiss & Lombardo tr. (Ch 29)

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““You should never be afraid of people… such fear can destroy us completely. You’ve simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don’t you?” ― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend”

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Paysage marin ©FrançoiseLarouge2023

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Kate Moss & Christy Turlington

Chloé A/W 1994

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“The sage is devoted to non-action, moves without teaching, creates ten thousand things without instruction, lives but does not own, acts but does not presume, accomplishes without taking credit. When no credit is taken, accomplishment endures.”

— Laozi, Daodejing, Addiss & Lombardo tr. (Ch 2)

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Depression 04 picocoon.art

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Kiyoshi Saito

Sunset (A)

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Lemaire F/W 2023

by Lena C Emery

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“In the great struggle for life — for the greatest possible fullness and intensity of life with the least waste of energy — natural selection continually seeks out the ways precisely for avoiding competition as much as possible.”

— Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid

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The boy who swallowed a star from Howl’s Moving Castle: Joe Hisaishi live in London 21/09/2023.

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The Rip XXIII Watercolor on paper, 6x7.5" 2023

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Doan Ly aka a.p. bio (Vietnamese, b. Vietnam, based New York City, NY, USA) - Untitled, Photography