my rubber soul

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It’s a long time since I drank champagne: Anton Chekhov died on this day in 1904.

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There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.

Björk

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Louis Armstrong, Paul Newman and Duke Ellington by Herman Leonard, Paris, 1960

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[aura-eden]

Details of women from Gustav Klimt’s paintings

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How old?

[dabacahin]

There is but one cure

“You write to me of the phase which your mind is just now undergoing. I know that you are an artist—a painter. Permit me to give you a piece of advice which truly comes from my heart: stick to your art, and give yourself up to it even more than hitherto. I know, for I have heard (do not take this ill of me) that you are not happy. To live alone, and continually to reopen the wounds in your heart by dwelling upon memories, may well make your life too drear for endurance. There is but one cure, one refuge, for that woe: art, creative activity.”

– Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter to Mlle. N. N., April 11, 1880, in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to His Family and Friends (translated by Ethel Colburn Mayne)

(Painting by Kazimir Malevich [1878–1935]: “Two-Dimensional Self-Portrait,” 1915. Thank you, WikiArt.)

[lonequixote]

[mythologyofblue]

Reminiscence of Brabant by Vincent van Gogh, detail +

Van Gogh wrote in a letter to his mother and sister: “And while my illness was at its worst, I still painted, among other things a reminiscence of Brabant, cottages with mossy roofs and beech hedges on an autumn evening with a stormy sky, the sun setting red in reddish clouds.” +

[shihlun]

Yasujiro Ozu taking a self-portrait with his Contax camera.

[taishou-kun]

Ozu Yasujirou 小津安二郎 (1903-1963) selfie - 1950s

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[ivebeenoutthere]

[soundsof71]

Nick Drake, November or December, 1971. “His music turned obsessively on the year’s cycle, with the inevitable coda of a dark, empty winter.” Photo by Keith Morris.

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Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda, c. late 1930s

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[opusmag]

Neal & Patti. 

[nevver]

Peanuts