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September 2010
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Pawelotti: I still cannot wrap my mind around the... →
pawelotti:
I still cannot wrap my mind around the beauty of her pure soul. While I am not one to ever be convinced to adhere to any kind of religion, I cannot withhold thinking she is simply divine. If we are children of nature, and I believe we are, then nature is divine for bringing forth such a…
“Forever I have lacked a connection with the superficial aspect of life that is society, never being able to fully relate to any of its members or find anything above a moderate, sometimes artificial pleasure in any of its institutions. This world that the common populace blindly exists in is something I view as shallow, petty, and nothing but an illusion that pollutes and masks the true...
The truth is...
I could have never imagined that I would ever be so lucky, so blessed to experience the incredible gift of completely pure, true love. When I think honestly about how rare such a thing really is, I am simply overwhelmed with gratitude. People may love, and many even intensely so, but this…this is something wholly different.
What exists between Pawel and I is something so much more...
July 2010
3 posts
June 2010
10 posts
“I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via wordsinbooks) (via oscarwildeassembly)
”The arts, the arts, the arts-” he said to me one night. “I don’t know why it took me so long to realize how important they are. As a young man, I actually held them in supreme contempt. Now, whenever I think about them, I want to fall on my knees and weep.”
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“Howard-” he said to me, “future civilizations-better civilizations than this...
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
– Albert Camus (via quote-book) (via lalumacahatrecorna) (via fuckyeahzenmind) (via signa) (via binnyyy) (via marywachsmann) (via nebachanezar) (via blankbook) (via booklover)
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...”
– Oscar Wilde. <3 (via juliashepherd) (via oscarwildeassembly)
“When at last I came across the right book the feeling was violent, it blew open...”
– Nicole Krauss, Great House (via thebronzemedal, planetickets) (via winterlief) (via lotusohm) (via booklover)
May 2010
4 posts
“Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some...”
– Oscar Wilde. Fragment of The Ballad of Reading Gaol (via bellatrix-is-a-star) (via oscarwildeassembly)
Surreal Artists You Should Know Pt. IV
Welcome, once again, my fellow nerds! I really hope that my monthly art blogs have been interesting and helpful for you, if you have any suggestions or tips on how I may make this specific blog category better, please don’t hesitate to send them my way. I’m aiming for a casual, non-pretentious line of posts that make exploring art fun and un-intimidating.
Being that this is the...
April 2010
19 posts
“Without individuals we see only numbers: A thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, ‘Casualties may rise to a million’. With individual stories, the statistics become people - but even that is a lie, for the people continue to suffer in numbers that themselves are numbing and meaningless. Look, see the child’s swollen, swollen belly, and the flies that crawl at the...
” ‘Biggest police case we’ve had here in five years was when Dan Schwartz got drunk and shot up his own trailer, the he went on the run, down Main street, in his wheelchair, waving this darn shotgun, shouting that he would shoot anyone who got in his way, that no one would stop him from getting to the interstate. I think he was on his way to shoot the president. I still laugh...
“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them...”
– Kahlil Gibran (via melancholynotes) (via aubade) (via booklover)
Surreal Artists You Should Know Pt. III
Hello again fellow art nerds! You can thank my friend Wihan for reminding me to write this blog entry in a timely manner. I intend to have a new installment of this section at the beginning of every month. For April, I’m going to focus on a darker aesthetic, just in case you all were getting a little too bright and cheery this spring!
The first artist I’d like to introduce is the...
March 2010
16 posts
