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"I am as I am, and that's all there is to it," he said to himself, "I can hardly take a pair of scissors to myself, and cut out a different person who might be a better friend to him."

—Franz Kafka, "The Judgement"

#franz kafka #the judgement #words #short story #lit #oneminute.text #german literature

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Locks of hair from Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Lord Byron, next to their portraits:

#romanticism

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Man Ray: 'Larmes de Verre', Glass Tears (1930-1932)

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thierry mugler, fw 1984. may he rest in peace.

#fashion #mugler

[Text ID: If this myth is tragic, that is because its hero is conscious. Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?]

Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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Untitled by Yasuhiro Zama

Wind sings in its whirling, water murmurs going by, unmoving stone keeps still.

Octavio Paz, “Wind, Water, Stone” (trans. Eliot Weinberger)

#poetry #spanish lit #words #nature #cycle of life #oneminute.text

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I had a dream, which was not all a dream. —Lord Byron

Images taken by the unmanned spacecraft Cassini. source.

#celestial bodies

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Erika L. Sánchez, from Lessons on Expulsion: Poems; “Amá”

[Text ID: “In One Hundred Years of Solitude, / Márquez wrote that we are birthed / by our mothers only once, but life obligates / us to give birth / to ourselves over and over.”]

#words #one hundred years of solitude #erika l sanchez

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Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

André Aciman / Call Me by Your Name (via bnmxfld)

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These moments came less often now, and for the most part it seemed as though things had begun to change for him. He no longer wished to be bead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive. But at least he did not resent it.

Paul Auster, City of Glass

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