"THINGS AREN'T SO JOLLY EASY," SAID PHILIP.

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Vladimir Nabokov, teaching his students how to read Kafka, pointed out to them that the insect into which Gregor Samsa is transformed is in fact a winged beetle, an insect that carries its wings under its armored back, and that if Gregor had only discovered them, he would have been able to escape. And then Nabokov added: ‘Many a Dick and a Jane grow up like Gregor, unaware that they too have wings and can fly.

Vladimir Nabokov on Kafka’s Metamorphosis (via kafkaesque-world)

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“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” - Nelson Mandela

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#‎LookFurther‬ | A Syrian lady smokes a cigarette in the northern town of Manbij after being liberated from ISIS by Kurdish forces.

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“Making your unknown known is the important thing–and keeping the unknown always beyond you.”

Georgia O'Keeffe.

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Sasha Phyars-Burgess

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Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass photographed by Peter Basch, 1961

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‘Cinema’, by Thomas Hoepker, Naples, Italy, 1956

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