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“I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it”

— Edgar Allen Poe

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

George Eliot // Edward Young // Malcolm Liepke // Marcel Proust // Kahlil Gibran // Thomas Aquinas // Holly Warburton // Taylor Swift // Arnold Lobel // Ralph Waldo Emerson

“““You’re not a monster,” I said. But I lied. What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.””

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— Ocean Vuong, from “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”

the flowers of your love are suffocating me

The Roses of Heliogabalus - Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (detail) // “Monster” (1994-2001) - Naoki Urasawa // Samuel Cirnansck at Sao Paulo Fashion Week Summer (2012) // x // “Hanahaki Disease” Part 2 - Celeste Durham // “hanahaki disease” - ari // Hannibal (2013-2015)

“I feel numbered, and constricted all over. I barely fit inside myself.” - Clarice Lispector, Complete Stories

1. Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life / 2. Su Xinyu / 3. Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life / 4. Su Xinyu / 5. Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life / 6. Su Xinyu / 7. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being / 8. Delfina Karmona / 9. Andrés Cerpa, The Vault / 10. Delfina Karmona / 11. Emily Dickinson / 12. Delfina Karmona / 13. Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

Quotes: 1.) Louise Glück, From Averno; “Blue Rotunda” 2.) Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous 3.) Clarice Lispector, from Selected Crônicas; “Excess and Privation ,” 4.) Rachel Cusk, on the reception of Aftermath, as cited in Olivia Sudjic’s Exposure

Art: 1.) Daniel F. Gerhartz 2.) Adrian Ghenie, Henrik Uldalen 3.) Helene Delmaire, Glenn Brown 4.) Alexandra Levasseur

Beautiful Latin phrases ~ part 3

•omnia iam fient quae posse negabam - everything which I used to say could not happen, will happen now

•poeta nascitur, non fit - the poet is born, not made

•qui dedit benificium taceat; narrat qui accepit - let him who has done a good deed be silent; let him who has received it tell it

•saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit - often, it is not advantageous to know what will be

•sedit qui timuit ne non succederet - he who feared he would not succeed sat still

•si vis pacem, para bellum - if you want peace, prepare for war

•struit insidias lacrimis cum feminia plorat - when a woman weeps, she is setting traps with her tears

•sub rosa - under the rose

•trahimir omnes laudis studio - we are led on by our eagerness for praise

•urbem latericium invenit, marmoream reliquit - he found the city a city of bricks; he left it a city of marble

•ut incepit fidelis sic permanet - as loyal as she began, so she remains.

"I wish I knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart...I do nothing all day, boredom settles in, I look at the sky so I get to feel even smaller than I already feel and my mind keeps poisoning itself uselessly."

-Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”

― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

                  The Power of the Sublime (Imaginative Architecture)

1-2 Prospettiva architettonica, Pietro Gaspari; Colegiata de San Isidro, Ventura Rodriguez

3  Piranesi’s design for a monumental staircase 

4. Stage Design, Giuseppe Galli Bibiena 

5-6 Interior of San’t Ignazio, Gian Paolo Panini. The Illumination of the Cross in Saint Peter’s Basilica on Good Friday by Giovanni Battista Piranesi 

7. Imperial Mausoleum, Piranesi

8-9 Large sculpture gallery built on arches and lit from above, Architecture and Perspectives, Piranesi; roup of columns which support two arches of a great courtyard, Piranesi

Takashi Watabe

La Petite CathédraleCergy-Pontoise, Paris, France. 1971

Architect: Ricardo Bofill

Architectural Sketches by Gareeva

Kazan, Russia based student Adelina Gareeva composes exquisite architectural sketches.

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