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“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.”

— Epicurus, Greek Philosopher (via fatifer)

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: In Bed, 1892-93

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“Yes, you are right, my soul needs balm.”

— Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), from a letter to Alexei Suvprin May 10, 1891, Alexin in: “The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov”, translated by Sidonie Lederer “ Да, Вы правы, душе моей нужен бальзам.” (via finita–la–commedia)

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sunsets in the conservatory are something else

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Judith with the Head of Holofernes (detail)

Elisabetta Sirani

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The garden of Eden with the fall of man (detail) by Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1615.

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“Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling.”

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This World Without Miracles, Jane Shore

[ID: Now I feel I am learning / how to grow into the space i was always meant / to occupy, into a self I can know.”]

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Memento mori: (Latin: "remember (that you have) to die”) The medieval Latin theory and practice of reflection on mortality, especially as a means of considering the vanity of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits.

Mono no aware (物の哀れ): (Japanese: “the sensitivity to ephemera”) The awareness of impermanence (無常 mujō), or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life.

L’appel du vide: (French: “call of the void”) The psychological phenomenon in which people, with no desire to die, find themselves faced with a steep cliff and experience a strong desire to leap.

Amor fati: (Latin: “the love of one’s fate”) An attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one’s life, including suffering and loss, as good; or, at the very least, necessary.