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It's the soul, that's erotic.

back in bed.

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

— Charles Bukowski

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Do you really believe in these fairy tales? Not in the good ones, but in the terrifying ones, yes.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nаzi or the convinced Cоmmunist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.

— Hannah Arendt

the spring in me.

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The freer the soul, more abstract the art.

— Marc Chagall

Ph. by Shinichi Kinugawa

To play it safe is not to play.

— Robert Altman

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Überschreitungen der Pathosgrenze.

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Manche Seelen treffen sich immer wieder.

Resonanzen in Zeit und Raum.

Why do I feel this alone? Basically, because I've always been alone. I've always been alone. And alone I'll be. It's about time I become aware of it and never forget it.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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I met myself in you.

Es ist, wie ich sagte. Diese Tage sind vorbei.

Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

— Leonard Cohen

She was to be a shooting star; she flickered briefly in the void, she continued the inevitable trajectory of the meteor, downward.

— Angela Carter

Sie verstand Duke Ellington.

I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying.

— Pablo Neruda

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

— Glenn Gould

I belong to my destiny and no one else.

— Hermann Hesse

Part of manifestation practice is what you let go of rather than what you add.

— Eckhart Tolle

Gregor Schneider, HAUS u r, 12/2021

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Above all, don't lie to yourself.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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