Misc.

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My pattern of violent thirsty impulsive intimacy with people—followed by phasing out. All that unsatisfied need for contact which builds up + builds—+ then bursts out upon a new person who comes into my life and seems to “see” me at all in a new or generous way. I seduce myself with my hope, my farseeing of what’s rich in that person—+ gloss over the limits that are equally discernible. And then, quickly, I can see only limits.

Susan Sontag, from a diary entry featured in As Consciousness Is Harnessed To Flesh: Journals & Notebooks, 1964 - 1980 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Chelsea Wolf // Flatlands

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I want to lie down under a tree. / This is the only duty that is not death.

James Wright, from Exile’s Home: The Poetry of James Wright; “A Prayer to Escape from the Market Place,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Louise Bourgeois (Fr. 1911-2010 US) The Feeding (2007) Gouache on paper (60x46 cm)

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“… art is a privilege, a blessing, a relief. privilege means that you are a favorite, that what you do is not completely to your credit, not completely due to you, but it is a favor conferred upon you. privilege entitles you when you deserve nothing… art was a privilege given to me, and i had to peruse it, even more  than the privilege of having children. the whole art mechanism is the result of many privileges, and it was a privilege to be a part of it… the privilege was the access to the unconscious… i had to be worthy of this privilege, and to exercise it. it was a privilege also to be able to sublimate. a lot of people cannot sublimate. they have no access to their unconscious. there is something very special in being able to sublimate your unconscious, and something very painful in the access to it. but there is no escape from it, and no escape from access once it is given to you, once you are favored with it, whether you want it or not… to escape you have to have a place to go. you have to have the courage to face risk. you have to have independence. all these things are gifts. they are blessings… sublimation is a gift; lots of people cannot sublimate.”

louise bourgeois

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Strangers

Wanda Bernardino

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Untitled (Rejoice!), from Inflammatory Essays Jenny Holzer, 1979

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It is February, ice is general. One notices different degrees of ice. Its colours–blue white brown grayblack silver–vary. Some ice has core bits of gravel or shadows inside. Some is smooth as a flank, you cannot stand on it. Standing on it the wind goes thin, to shreds… All we wished for, shreds.

Anne Carson, from Some Afternoons She Does Not Pick Up The Phone (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Day is Done || Nick Drake

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Altai Mountains by Iri_sha

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me: *looks at myself in the mirror*

*margaret atwood appears*

me: oh margaret not again–

her: Male fantasies, male fantasies…

me: *crying* you’re right you’re right you’re right

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The most handsome sheep I’ve ever seen

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Empty. — So full. — Today. — I feel it. — It’s something very beautiful I want to touch — but — wouldn’t if I could for fear I might find there is nothing to touch —

Georgia O’Keeffe, from a letter to Alfred Stieglitz featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Mosque shooting victims: Six men who sought better lives in Quebec

Mourned by friends, family, most victims of mosque shooting had young children

We often look at these incidents as statistics, but the victims of yesterday’s shooting deserve to be remembered for who they were.

Abdelkrim Hassane, 41 Mamadou Tanou Barry, 42 Ibrahima Barry, 39 Azzeddine Soufiane, 57 Khaled Belkacemi, 60 Aboubaker Thabti, 44

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