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“I am too full of life to be half loved." (via Aly).

[Artwork: Night Swim by Heather Goodwind]

#art #Illustration #heather goodwind #quote

“It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.” ― Albert Camus

(Artwork by Eduardo Mata Icaza, "Triptico El retrato y El no retratado," 2013)

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"But this demand for immortality is a product of our wishes too unmistakable to lay claim to reality: what is painful may none the less be true." -- Sigmund Freud

(Artwork by Federico Infante, from "Drawings 2010-2014" set on Behance)

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And when history burns inside my clothes

and when blue nails grow inside my books,

I cry out to the day,

“Who are you, who tosses you

into my virgin land?”

And inside my book and on my virgin land

I stare into a pair of eyes made of dust.

I hear someone saying,

“I am the wound that is born

and grows as your history grows.” -- Adonis

(Artwork by Farzad Kohan, "Without Borders," 2012, mixed media on wood panel)

#Farzad Kohan #Iranian art #art #anarchy #paintings #modern art #Adonis #lit #quotes #poetry #land #syrian poetry #persian art

"One always dies too soon—or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are—your life, and nothing else." ― Jean-Paul Sartre

(Artwork by Dia Azzawi, Tree of Life, 2010, acrylic on canvas)

*retrieved from Meem Gallery

#Jean-Paul Sartre #no exit #playright #existentialism #quote #lit #life #Meem Gallery #Iraqi Art #Arab art #abstract art #art #painting #Dia Azzawi

“There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and the solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. She wept then." ― Toni Morrison

(Artwork by Ameen Azzawi, Light of Candles, date unknown)

#Toni Morrison #Ameen Azzawi #lit #quote #loss #death #mourning #palestinian art #arab art #symbolism

“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.” ― Georges Bataille

(Artwork by Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1954, oil on unprimed canvas)

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“Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.” ― Roland Barthes

(Artwork by Werner Drewes, Longing For, 1944)

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“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.” ― Carson McCullers

(Artwork by Keita Morimoto, Maze I, 2010, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches)