mai 2013
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If you aim for simplicity, master complexity.
– Lu Ch’ai
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But if I lacked an upper lip here, there an ear, here a rib, there a finger, if I had hairless spots on my head and pockmarks on my face, this would still be no adequate counterpart to my inner imperfection. This imperfection is not congenital and therefore so much the more painful to bear. For like everyone, I too have my centre of gravity inside me from birth, and this not even the most foolish...
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avril 2013
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And the day came for the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more...
– Anaïs Nin
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Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the...
– Philip Sington, The Valley of Unknowing (W. W. Norton & Co., 2012)
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mars 2013
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To be is to have mortal shape, mortal conditions, to struggle, to evolve. Paradise is, like the dream of the Buddhists, a Nirvana where there is no more personality and hence no conflict. It is the expression of a man’s wish to triumph over reality, over becoming. The artist’s dream of the impossible, the miraculous, is simply the resultant of his inability to adapt himself to reality. He creates,...
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décembre 2012
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novembre 2012
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the...
– Pablo Picasso
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octobre 2012
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If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The Gulag Archipelago
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septembre 2012
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All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s...
– Iain Thomas
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Forces, visible and hidden, stretching back into one’s past; migrations; religious conversions—our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.
TERENCE MCKENNA True...
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août 2012
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Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary...
– Anaïs Nin (Collages)
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juillet 2012
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Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming...
– J.D. Salinger (Seymour: An Introduction)
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