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“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”

—  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via tune-it-up)

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“Life, for me, is a profound, a sacred, a joyous, a mysterious, a soulful dance. But it is a dance. All aspects of the self have to be lived out, like the twelve houses of the zodiac. I walk with my dream unfurled, and lose myself in my own labyrinths, and the dream unfurled carries me.”

— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 2: 1920-1923 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”

— Krishnamurti | @wnq-philosophy (via wnq-philosophy)

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6 Types of Love

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I've felt it for some time now, closing around me like the jaws of a gigantic flower. Isn't that a peculiar analogy? It feels that way, though. It has a certain vegetable inevitability. Think of the Venus flytrap. Think of kudzu choking a forest. It's a sort of juicy, green, thriving process. Toward, well, you know. The green silence. Isn't it funny that, even now, it's difficult to say the word 'death'?

Michael Cunningham, The Hours

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Michael Cunningham, from “The Hours”

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Bruno et son calendrier classique

Le Petit Soldat (1960), dir. Jean-Luc Godard

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“Please don’t understand me too quickly.”

— Andre Gide, Autumn leaves

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Les amants réguliers (2005) dir. Philippe Garrel.

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NO WAR

Full Moon (Jul.14, 2022)

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Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Untitled, 2013

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“She wore poetry.”

— Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita)

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Emily Skaja, from Brute: Poems; “No, I do not want to connect with you on Linkedin”

[Text ID: “The moon knew me. It took my side.”]

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George Seferis, tr. by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, from The Collected Poems 1924-1955; “In the Kyrenia District”

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“She’s like smoke: you think you’re seeing her clearly enough, but when you reach for her there’s nothing there.”

— Ryū Murakami

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Je vous souhaite d'être follement aimée.

André Breton, L'amour fou (Mad Loves)

tr: My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.