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There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius… They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

Simone Weil, “Morality and Literature” (via philosophybits)

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Snuffbox by Louis Charonnat, Metropolitan Museum of Art: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Gold

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Abbas Kiarostami on the set of Like Someone In Love.

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Composition. Lajos Ebneth. Der Sturm. November 1926.

Heidelberg University

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Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (via philosophybits)

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Ella Frances Sanders

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Inscribed brick, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Rogers Fund, 1959 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Ceramic, glaze

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Indigenous drawings from South America. Die Kunst der Naturvölker und der Vorzeit. 1923.

Internet Archive

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Turm zu Babel. Niklaus Stoecklin ~ 1945 • via Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness (via philosophybits)

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“Ahaṃkāra”

Finished :D

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“He who has once written, and feels in himself the passion of writing, acquires from almost all he does and experiences only that which can be communicated through writing.”

—Human, All Too Human: Vol. 1, §200 (excerpt).