ONEIROCRITICON

of the fleeting and the eternal: a compendium

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Freddy Maertens and Dietrich Thurau, 1977 Fleche Wallone

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Feodor Encke (1851–1926)

Allegoria della primavera

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José de Ribera: Prometeo (1630)

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Like all dreamers, I confused disenchantment with truth.

Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words (via philosophybits)

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As with Char and the other constants, he expressed his feelings and his fidelity frequently and dramatically. “Know that you can rely on my long friendship.” “I’m not too good at talking at this moment, but I know how to listen to those I love.” In his words there is always an implication of gratitude for the relationship, which, as he explained himself, was gratitude for being loved and respected for who he was. “Only certain privileged beings know enough never to judge.”

Elizabeth Hawes, Camus, A Romance (via acknowledgetheabsurd)

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Linda Hamilton, Terminator 2 (1991)

[causeries-litteraires]

L'immortalité de l'âme, il est vrai, préoccupe beaucoup de bons esprits. Mais c'est qu'ils refusent, avant d'en avoir épuisé la sève, la seule vérité qui leur soit donnée et qui est le corps. Car le corps ne leur pose pas de problèmes ou, du moins, ils connaissent l'unique solution qu'il propose : c'est une vérité qui doit pourrir et qui revêt par là une amertume et une noblesse qu'ils n'osent pas regarder en face. Les bons esprits lui préfèrent la poésie, car elle est affaire d'âme. On sent bien que je joue sur les mots.

Albert Camus - Le Désert , Noces, 1938 

English:” The immortality of the soul ,it is true,engross many noble minds.But this is because they reject the body,the only truth that is given  them ,before using up its strength,For the body presents no problems,or, at least ,they know the only solution it proposes: a truth which must perish and which thus acquires a bitterness and nobility they dare not contemplate directly.Noble minds would rather have poetry than the body, for poetry concerns the soul.Clearly ,I am playing on words.”Albert Camus ,from  Lyrical and Critical Essays,translated from the French by Ellen Conroy Kennedy

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What chains of dependence can there be among men who possess nothing?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality (via philosophybits)

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Yoshitoshi Kanemaki

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How I wanted a day of solitude and reflection.

Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959 (Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 2008; first published 1989)

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Amedee Fournier takes a rest, Tour de France, 1939.

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Mifune bifrons.

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