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“Belief and doubt are not two forms of knowledge… for neither of them is a cognitive act; they are opposite passions. Belief is a sense for becoming, and doubt is a protest against any conclusion that goes beyond immediate sensation and knowledge.”

— Søren Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments

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George Brecht, Poem (For R.M. Rilke), ca. 1962-1964, MoMA, New York, NY [The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection] [© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany]

[godkissedme]

Today was a small clean cloth placed over a very old injury

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Franz Marc, White Bull

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“We must think of the media as if they were, in outer orbit, a sort of genetic code which controls the mutation of the real into the hyperreal.”

— Jean Baudrillard, Simulations

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Spain, Seville | Navalcan, 1955.

Photos by Eve Arnold

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“San Sepolcro,” Jorie Graham

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Raymond Carver

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LARGE SPECIMEN OF LAPIS LAZULI

SAR-I-SANG, AFGHANISTAN

A large and impressive specimen of lapis lazuli from the historic Sar-i-Sang mines, Badakhshan, Afghanistan.

This historic source, worked for over 6,000 years, has produced some of the finest lapis lazuli known. Material from the Sar-i-Sang mines travelled along ancient trade routes to Mesopotamia and Egypt, where it was prized for its intense celestial-blue colour and symbolic association with the heavens and divinity. Used in jewellery, amulets, carvings, and later ground to create the precious pigment ultramarine, lapis lazuli has long been regarded as one of the most coveted ornamental stones of the ancient world.

Lyon and Turnbull

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Teng Hiok Chiu 周廷旭, Landscape, 1946

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[the-dauphine]

“The most precious thing is vitality – not in any sinister Lawrentian sense, but just the will + energy + appetite to do what one wants to do + not to be ‘sunk’ by disappointments. Aristotle is right: happiness is not to be aimed at; it is a by-product of activity aimed at.”

— Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks 1947—1963  (via sartreuse)

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STROMATOLITE SPECIMEN

UPPER TACHGAGALT FORMATION, MOROCCO, PRECAMBRIAN PERIOD, 635 – 541 MILLION YEARS B.P.

This specimen stands as evidence of some of the world’s earliest life forms. Stromatolites first appeared more than 3.5 billion years ago, forming in the shallow, warm waters of the Earth’s primordial seas. There, microbial mats trapped and bound fine sediment and minerals, creating layers over vast periods of time. The banding visible here preserves that gradual process, offering a direct link to life in its earliest stages.

Lyon and Turnbull

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“And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him separated him from the door, and the notes reaching him through a succession of hands said that she was not available; that she was inaugurating a fire; that she had married an american businessman; that she had become a character in a novel; that she was dead.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

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the tunnel of despair & the door of hope