Secrets

As for that story there are many versions. The best one though is always the one where you cry. (Tasos Leivaditis, "Aesthetics")

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“If You Want To Be Called A Human Being” by Tasos Leivaditis, tr. by N. N. Trakakis

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Germaine Krull (1897-1985) Étude pour La Folle d’Itteville [Study for The Madwoman of Itteville] 1931

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Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), The Gates of Hell, modeled 1880–1917, bronze cast after the artist's death from the original plaster model. Musée Rodin, Paris. Commissioned in 1880 for a proposed Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, the monument remained unfinished throughout Rodin's lifetime. Conceived after Dante Alighieri's Inferno, the composition ultimately expanded beyond its literary source, incorporating references to Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal and developing into an independent sculptural program. More than 180 figures are organized within a continuous, high-relief field that rejects Renaissance compositional hierarchy in favor of an unstable, expressive surface. Many of Rodin's most celebrated sculptures—including The Thinker, The Kiss, The Three Shades, and Ugolino and His Sons—originated as figures first modeled for this monumental portal before being enlarged and exhibited as autonomous works.

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Arthur Rimbaud — Le Dormeur du Val (The Sleeper in the Valley), original manuscript

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Ian Curtis

[blindmanwithlamp]

On Walter Benjamin’s birthday, July 15, 1892

Dora (Walter Benjamin’s ex-wife), in a letter to Gerhard Scholem, written on this day in 1941, after hearing of Walter Benjamin’s death:

“Dear, dear Gerhard, I cried when I saw your handwriting and at last got a letter from you after seven years… Dear Gerhard, Walter’s death has left a vacuum which is slowly but surely sucking in all my hopes and wishes for the future. I know that I shall not survive him long. You will be surprised at this, because I no longer formed part of his life, but he formed part of mine… I thought and felt that if the world was able to keep alive a creature of his worth and sensitiveness, it could not, after all, be such a bad world. It seems that I was wrong.”

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[waiting-eyez]

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

(Friedrich Nietzsche)

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Karoline von Günderrode. No one has thought about her as much as I have. I have feasted upon her suicide.

– E. M. Cioran

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"My dark and lovely thing,"

~ Charles Baudelaire, "Remorse Too Late" from The Flowers of Evil (transl. George Dillon & Edna St. Vincent Millay)

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The Cure - 1980 - Seventeen Seconds Era