The excellence of every art is its intensity.

― John Keats

Early Layout for: Rick Owens: Furniture, 2017

Don't remember me. Feel me. The less you think me, the more you love me.

— Julia de Burgos

Equinoxe; revisited.

So it's always a process of letting go, one way or another.

— Charles Bukowski

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Everything you did not understand has made you what you are.

— Charles Simic

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

— Michel Houellebecq

They're so electric in Dazzledorf ...

He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.

— Madeline Miller

Confusion is a sign of vast embracing. Don't be anxious about it. Later, you will make the synthesis. First take in, understand, love everything. It's good.

— Mossèn Cinto Verdaguer

[Feel the Juche; thank.]

Memory is a lonely observer.

— Charles Wright

Udo Kier; als Baron Tante Teufel

Egomania - Insel ohne Hoffnung;
inszeniert von Christoph Schlingensief, 1986

We never love anyone. We love only our idea of what someone is like. We love an idea of our own; in short, it is ourselves that we love.

— Fernando Pessoa

/// Form is temporary, class is permanent.

The person you think of when you stand in front of the ocean. That's the person you're in love with.

— Colleen Michel

Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

— D. H. Lawrence

Wir sind bereit.

The perfect journey is no need to go.

— A. R. Ammons

Richard Serra | Wake | 2003

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And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.

— Richard Serra

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Chaos und Cosmos.

He preferred things he could not understand with the mind. He loved the undiscovered and the undiscoverable.

— D. H. Lawrence

True comfort is when you know you are exactly where you should be.

— Jonathan Carroll

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Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

No, she said. We must not talk of the things, we find of the heart of the forest. They are all secrets. If they were not secrets, we would have heard of them before.

— Angela Carter

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— Denise Levertov

/// Tragedy in hope.

Read the energy that is there in my silence.

— Clarice Lispector

My solemn proclamation is that a new universe is created every moment.

— D. T. Suzuki

Trouée d'Arenberg; revisited.

As you are now so once were we.

— James Joyce

Somewhere in the conversation we never have, lies an issue we never resolve.

— William Chapman

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

— Lawrence Durrell

I, TONYA

/// What beautiful battlefields you are.

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I don't like being asked the same thing twice. I like people to understand at the first word. Some things can't be explained.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky