“I work in color sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white – I like the abstraction of it.” – Mary Ellen Mark
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The oldest house in France. It's found
In Aveyron, it's 700 years old, it was built in the 13th century and belonged to a Jeanne.
The ground floor is a little smaller than the upstairs because in those times you only paid taxes on occupied land, so everyone built like this.
“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
Hermann Hesse
My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"Inside, we are ageless…and when we talk to ourselves, it's the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It's the body that is changing around that ageless center."
~David Lynch
I have led a toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on - and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone. ~Jean-Paul Sartre
My brother used to ask the birds to forgive him; that sounds senseless but it is right; for all is like the ocean, all things flow and touch each other; a disturbance in one place is felt at the other end of the world.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"I will cut adrift.I will sit on pavements and drink coffee.I will dream.I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim.this fine October."
Virginia Woolf. from a diary entry .October 1927 featured in “Diaries"
"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself."
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov, 1880“Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss,I go straight into it,head down and heels up,and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position,and for me I find it beautiful.”
Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.
Albert Camus, The Stranger
زمان شوناسە، زمان ماڵی بوونە.
زارامحەمەدی مامۆستای زمانی کوردی دەڵێ"زمانی من جیهانی منە."
ڕۆژی جیهانی زمانی دایک پیرۆزبێت.
Roja Zimanê Dayikê pîroz be! ❤☀️💚
دووی ڕەشەمێی 2722 ڕۆژی جیهانی زمانی دایکی پیرۆز بێ.
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“Very few people do this any more. It's too risky. First of all, it's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
/ "A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free." /
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself."
By Simone de Beauvoir
"Why do men insist on achieving something ? Would it not be better if they stood still under the sun in calm and silent immobility ? What is there to accomplish ? Why so much effort and ambition ? Man has forgotten the meaning of silence."
—Emil Cioran On the Heights of Despair
"I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole." Krzysztof Kieslowski
🎬 Three Colours: Blue (1993) / dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski
A mystery artist has been creating sculptures using natural stones high among the hills of England's Lake District. This stone circle frames the view of Borrowdale.
"Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning."
--from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder."
— Thomas Aquinas
Painting by Rembrandt Van Rijn, Philosopher Reading (1631)
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The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men. ~Albert Camus