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Anna Karina - Vivré sa Vie (Jean Luc Godard, 1962)

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"My story will resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the Surrey Park at dusk in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life ... I will return, find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame."

-Atonement (2007)

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friends to enemies to lovers is actually something that can be so intimate. i know you i know everything about you i have told you all my deepest secrets and you have told me yours and now i am trying to kill you literally or metaphorically because hate and love are separated by a very thin line and i don't know which side i am on

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sunshine in shallow water, fresh summer breeze, lacy dresses, painted ceramic mugs, lying in the grass, the sound of a stream flowing nearby, tinted cheeks, coy eyelashes, feeling the softness of someone's skin.

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Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is

to watch the year repeat its days.

It is as if I could dip my hand down

until at last I was floating high up near the ceiling looking down

on the two souls clasped there on the bed

with their mortal boundaries..

I peel the stale cage of sheets off my legs

and I am free..

Anne Carson, The Glass, 1994

p.s. all photos are mine. clicked on OnePlus 7.

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sunshine in shallow water, fresh summer breeze, lacy dresses, painted ceramic mugs, lying in the grass, the sound of a stream flowing nearby, tinted cheeks, coy eyelashes, feeling the softness of someone's skin.

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In the heart of Ahmedabad.

all photos are mine. clicked on OnePlus 7.

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Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.

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Conte d'été, (A Summer's Tale)

Éric Rohmer, 1996

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The Little Peasant, Anne Sexton.

When he lay

as still as a sausage

the miller's wife

let in the parson, saying,

My husband is out

so we shall have a feast.

Roast meat, salad, cakes and wine.

The parson,

his eyes as black as caviar,

said, Come, my lily,

my fringy queen.

The miller's wife,

her lips as red as pimientos,

said, Touch me, my pancake,

and wake me up.

And thus they ate.

And thus

they dingoed-sweet.

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wither, my young lady

there's no one out there to save you,

you will fall from the stalk, as evidently as morals of men,

shrunk to non-existent talk,

except when they try to woo you, otherwise we're mere specimen,

wither, my young lady

there's no one out there to grace you.

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David of Michelangelo fused with popular culture

1. Michelangelo's David is massive at 17 feet tall and more than 12,000 pounds, yet it is sculpted from a single block of white marble.

2. The block of marble that Michelangelo used to carve "David" had been worked on more than 50 years earlier by Donatello. At that time the marble was said to have had a flaw in it and the project was abandoned.

3.Michelangelo broke with artistic tradition by portraying David before his battle with Goliath rather than afterwards as seen in representations by Caravaggio and Donatello.

4. Unruly protesters flung a chair that broke the statue's left arm in three spots during an uprising in 1527.

5. In 1857, reigning Queen Victoria was so taken aback by the nudity of a replica David statue that she ordered a plaster fig leaf to be cast to cover his genitals before he went on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

6. Although it has remained in Florence for over 500 years, the Italian government recently asked the courts to decide whether the city or the country owns the David.

7. Michelangelo exaggerated the size of David's right hand. Some believe it is a reference to a nickname for the biblical David, which means "strong of hand."

8. That David's eyes are flawed went unnoticed for centuries, perhaps due to the statues' extreme height. However, the 20th-century Digital Michelangelo Project at Stanford University rendered complete images of the statue which revealed that the David's left eye gazes forward while the right eye is focused on some distant spot.

9. In 1873, officials decided to move the David indoors to the Galleria dell'Accademia to protect it from the weather. However, the statue is now suffering from stress fractures caused by the vibrations of scores of tourists filing past.

10. Moving the statue from Michelangelo's studio to the Palazzo Vecchio took forty men and four days, even though the distance was less than a mile.

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The Creation of Adam

Fresco painting by Michelangelo

Location: Sistine Chapel

Year: 1512

Periods: Renaissance, Italian Renaissance, High Renaissance

Impression, Sunrise

Painting by Claude Monet

Location: Musée Marmottan Monet

Year: 1872

Period: Impressionism

Almond Blossoms

Painting by Vincent van Gogh

Location: Van Gogh Museum

Year: 1890

Periods: Modern art, Post-Impressionism

The Kiss

Painting by Gustav Klimt

Location: Belvedere

Year: 1907–1908

Periods: Art Nouveau, Symbolism, Modern art, Vienna Secession

Sistine Chapel ceiling

Painting by Michelangelo

Art form: Painting, Fresco

Location: Sistine Chapel

Year: 1508–1512

Period or movement: High Renaissance

Allegory of Merit Accompanied by Nobility and Virtue

Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Location: Ca' Rezzonico - Museum of the 18th century Venice

Period: Rococo

Year: 1758

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"Luscious and round and sleek.

Poor thing.

To die and never see Brooklyn."

RUMPELSTILTSKIN, Poems of Anne Sexton

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IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT

In the cold night, while poring over my book,

I forgot the hour of bedtime.

The scent of my gold-embroidered bedcover

Has already evaporated,

The fire in the hearth burns no more.

My beautiful mistress, who hitherto has controlled

Her wrath with difficulty, snatches away the lamp,

And asks: Do you know how late it is?64

~ Letters to Felice, Franz Kafka

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Now that I have known the privilege to love you, there's no other way I'd know to live from now on..