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Inner sleeve of Blessed Are… by Joan Baez

Japanese mother of pearl fantail dove, 1880

"You survive this and in some terrible way, which I suppose no one can ever describe, you are compelled, you are corralled, you are bullwhipped into dealing with whatever it is that hurt you. And what is crucial here is that if it hurt you, that is not what’s important. Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive. This is all you have to do it with. You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less."

- James Baldwin, The Artist's Struggle for Integrity

transgenderer

Comforting a drunker person while drunk feel like what I imagine it would be like to comfort a dying soldier on the battlefield

2j

monster2001

passion-of-l0vers

lets give it up for pleasures of the flesh !!

nenan

Asalia Yusupova photographed by Louisa Meng

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elliott smith on breakfast time, 1995

cece-debruyne

lion-of-babylon

The Ishtar Gate, main gate of Babylon built during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562 BCE). Enamelled tiles, mythical animals, lions, and gods embellish the gate which was dedicated to goddess Ishtar of Babylon, Mesopotamia (Iraq). now in Berlin