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Emma Barton, Old Familiar Flowers, 1919

(voice of a person spiralling) its embarrassing but i still havent figured out if its ok for me to be alive

“Yes, I need you, my fairy-tale. Because you are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought — and about how, when I went out to work today and looked a tall sunflower in the face, it smiled at me with all of its seeds.”

— Vladimir Nabokov in his letter to future wife Véra Yevseyevna Slonim dated July 1923, Letters to Véra

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“Beyond a given point [we are] not helped by more “knowing,” but only by living and doing in a partly self-forgetful way. As Goethe put it, we must plunge into experience and then reflect on the meaning of it. All reflection and no plunging drives us mad; all plunging and no reflection, and we are brutes.”

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Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

(via exhaled-spirals)

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Egon Schiele

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Albert Oehlen (Germany b. 1954) Schlafzimmer - Bedroom (2004) oil on cotton tarpaulin with photo collage 280 x 300 cm

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THIEF (1981) dir. Michael Mann

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by condensing your language, you leave more interpretative breathing room for your symbols. in return for this gesture of good faith, your symbols might fall in love with you