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“One spends one’s time dreaming, one does not dream simply when one sleeps.

The unconscious is very precisely the hypothesis that one does not dream only when one is asleep.

I would like to point out to you that what is called ‘the reasonable’ is a fantasy; it is quite manifest at the beginning of science. Euclidian geometry has all the characteristics of fantasy.

A fantasy is not a dream, it is an aspiration.”

Jacques Lacan, Seminar XXV, The Moment to Conclude, page 1

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Feed on what you will. Rats, chickens, poodles, I'll leave you to it and watch you come around. But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable. — Tom Cruise as Lestat de Lioncourt in Interview with the Vampire (1994)

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Blue Mosque - Istanbul, Turkey.

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if you're having a bad day, just remember atleast you're not Sonny

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BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA (1992) studies

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“I would still endeavour to keep my expectations low respecting the ultimate success of Jane Eyre;”

Charlotte Brontë, from a letter to W. S. Williams (October 28th, 1847)

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Charles van Havermaet (Belgian, 1870-1911)

Pensive Moment

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people are always assuming that cats have a negative attitude about things. she's just sitting there bro

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WOLF HALL + art Thomas Cromwell portrait by Hans Holbein, the Younger – c. 1532-1533 1x04 The Devil's Spit

"Holbein painted this portrait on his second visit to England in 1532. Using the common device of a folded letter—inserted here in an exquisite small still life—the artist informs us of Cromwell’s current position as Master of the Jewel House. Far less explicitly, a coronet embroidered in the blue wall covering falls, as if perchance, on Cromwell’s head—possibly a nod to the sitter’s boundless ambition.

The cooler tones and simpler background of the Cromwell portrait, as compared with the earlier one of More, are characteristic of the paintings of Holbein’s second English period. As for the artist’s sympathy for his two subjects, you will have to decide for yourself." (x)

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Odyssey

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~ Plaque.

Culture: Italic, Etruscan

Period: Late Archaic Period or early Classical Period

Date: ca. 470 B.C.

Medium: Terracotta

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— Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, December 1881

[text ID: I must endure bad times and the waters will rise, possibly as high as the lips and possibly even higher, how can I know beforehand? But I’ll fight my fight and sell my life dearly and try to win and pull through.]

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Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist (detail, ca.1507-9) Andrea Solario

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"In 1949 when a friend expressed surprise upon hearing that she was going back to Georgia for a visit - convinced her life there had been a source of no little distress - McCullers answered glibly: "I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror."

introduction by virginia spencer carr from the collected stories of carson mccullers (1987)