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Homage to Leonardo da Vinci, 1908, Odilon Redon Medium: pastel,paper

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“…faith for is a way of situating yourself in front of reality, starting with your own self. It is a judgment, a position, a stand that you take, with respect to everything. If you fail to take that stand then, at best, you are superficial. You have no depth. Therefore you are at the mercy of whatever power comes along to move you. Because you do not have this firm stand, you are vulnerable to power.“ ~ Lorenzo Albacete [revolutionoftenderness]

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In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in lightning flashes. The text is the long roll of thunder that follows.

Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project [N1,1]

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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Edward Sackville-West, written c. August 1926

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"The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight. Then we shall clearly realize that it is our task to bring about a real state of emergency, and this will improve our position in the struggle against Fascism. One reason why Fascism has a chance is that in the name of progress its opponents treat it as a historical norm. The current amazement that the things we are experiencing are "still" possible in the twentieth century is not philosophical. This amazement is not the beginning of knowledge - unless it is the knowledge that the view of history which gives rise to it is untenable."

Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History