Sopstvena

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And my soul must be iron
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Reblogged when-injune
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“Art is not religion, “it doesn’t even lead to religion.” But in the time of distress which is ours, the time when the gods are missing, the time of absence and exile, art is justified, for it is the intimacy of this distress: the effort to make manifest, through the image, the error of the imaginary, and eventually the ungraspable, forgotten truth which hides behind the error.”

— Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature

#Maurice Blanchot#The Space of Literature
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Reblogged nature-cities
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I discovered that the world should be divided not into good and bad people but into cowards and non-cowards. Ninety-five percent of cowards are capable of the vilest things, lethal things, at the mildest threat.

― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Stories

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Reblogged luxe-pauvre
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That […] mixture of sensuality and cruelty which has always seemed to me to be the real “witches’ brew.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Medusa Reader, transl by Walter Kaufmann, (2013)

#Friedrich Nietzsche
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Reblogged nature-cities
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« The books I liked became a Bible from which I drew advice and support; I copied out long passages from them; I memorised […] psalms, proverbs, and prophecies, and I sanctified every incident in my life by the recital of these sacred texts. My emotions, my tears, and my hopes were no less sincere on account of that; the words and the cadences, the lines and the verses were not aids to make believe: but they rescued from silent oblivion all those intimate adventures of the spirit that I couldn’t speak to anyone about; they created a kind of communion between myself and those twin souls which existed somewhere out of reach; instead of living out my small private existence, I was participating in a great spiritual epic. »

— Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

#Simone de Beauvoir#Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
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Reblogged hcsperrhodos
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i absolutely adore when you can tell an artist is a certified yearner just by looking at their work

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like these sculptures by auguste rodin…

#art
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