amabam amare

...who is dominated, if ever anyone was, by an insatiable passion, that of seeing and feeling... 'Amabam amare,' said St Augustine. 'I love passion, passionately.'                                                                                                                                                                     -Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life

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She cried out in wonder, for she had never seen this before, and it struck me, Jeffers, how the human capacity for receptivity is a kind of birthright, an asset given to us in the moment of our creation by which we are intended to regulate the currency of our souls. Unless we give back to life as much as we take from it, this faculty will fail us sooner or later. My difficulty, I saw then, had always lain in finding a way to give back all the impressions I had received, to render an account to a god who had never come and never come, despite my desire to surrender everything that was stored inside me. Yet even so my receptive faculty had not, for some reason, failed me: I had remained a devourer while yearning to become a creator, and I saw that I had summoned L across the continents intuitively believing that he could perform that transformative function for me, could release me into creative action.

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I realize you experience an ongoing disinclination to enter a meaningful exchange. This leads to stalemate and the desire on my impart certain wisdom upon you. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, sometimes its the best course available. Son, don't be afraid. We'll all be there together.

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Tamara de Lempicka (Polish,1898-1980)

Le coquillage, 1941

oil on canvas

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