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The truth is scandalous. But without it, nothing has any worth. […] As you approach the truth, your solitude will increase.

— Michel Houllebecq

Awareness in itself is healing.

— Fritz Perls

From True Korea; with love ...

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I don't wish power. Only art, art and passion.

— Anaïs Nin

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Sára Saudková | Hommage to Ch. Bukowski #1 | 2013

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Silence is the language of all the strong passions, of love, of anger, of wonder, of fear.

— Giacomo Leopardi

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Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

[Feel the Juche; thank.]

Ich diskutiere nicht, weil ich vorher nachdenke.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Those social networks, there's something sad about them. It's like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Die Leute denken zu viel. Und sie nehmen sich zu ernst. Ich lebe ohne Plan. Meine größte Entdeckung war zu verstehen, dass ich nichts tun muss: Alles, was ich tun muss, ist zuzulassen, dass die Dinge passieren können. [...] Sich selbst ernst zu nehmen, sei es in der Kunst oder im Leben, ist unsinnig. Kunst oder Leben ohne Humor ist nicht lebenswert.

— Jonas Mekas

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I know there is no straight road. No straight road in this world. Only a giant labyrinth of intersecting crossroads.

— Federico García Lorca

Vielleicht hat Gott mich zu einem Maler für Menschen
gemacht, die noch nicht geboren sind.

You know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love of which I am capable.

— Charlotte Brontë

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Villa Tugendhat, Detail | 1929/30

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A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

— Patrick Geddes

A beautiful thing is never perfect.

[Bangs; as always.]

We are all foreigners, all strangers, no matter how many people we surround ourselves with. The only difference is that some of us know it and some don't. Some prefer the illusion of belonging.

— Michael Boiano

They're the Jack Bauer of the Starfleet Universe ...

Sometimes the universe allows for the making of unexpected memories.

— Philippa Georgiou

Cy Twombly; Biography

How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.

— Kurt Tucholsky

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

— Ansel Adams

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Musik ist Heterotopie. Es gibt zwei Universen, das eine ist die bittere Wirklichkeit, daneben gibt eine zweite, träumerische. Von der Verbindung der beiden handelt die Musik. Das macht ihre Gravitation aus.

— Alexander Kluge

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Hiroyuki Matumura

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder. To search for the truth.

— Albert Einstein

The people who are truly important to us, the people we've allowed to break us open inside, do not stop questioning us, obsessing us, pursuing us, and, if necessary, guiding us, even if they die, or grow distant, or if we've quarrelled.

— Elena Ferrante

I've given you my time. It's all I've got to give — it's all any man has.

— Charles Bukowski

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I find it so moving that you are the way you are.

— Ernest Hemingway

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[Feel the Juche; thank.]

There's time here to love slowly.

— Jeanette Winterson

Jahreswechsel

If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much that you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Tsundoku (japanese) is acquiring reading materials
but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them.

Our society of today only represents culture, but the cultured man is lacking.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Reality itself is nothing but an embodiment of a certain blockage in the process of symbolization. For reality to exist, something must be left unspoken.

— Slavoj Žižek