U Know What Makes Me Cry..... That One Van Gogh Quote About Life Changing For The Better..... “many

Parrot Dance

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A.F. Vandevorst installation for Arnhem Mode Biennale 2011

Us Against You (Fredrik Backman)/ Detail of the Fire (Richard Siken)/ Anxious People (Fredrik Backman)

“Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.”

— Franz Kafka

“You alone keep me – you are the only chain that links me to time – but for you I should be free – And yet I cannot be destined to live long; A hatred of life must consume the vital principle – perfectly detached as I am from the world, I cannot long be a part of it. I feel that all is to me dead except the necessity of viewing a succession of daily suns illuminate the sepulchre of all I love.”

— Mary Shelley, from a diary entry featured in The Journals of Mary Shelley (via violentwavesofemotion)

I’d wear these baroque porcelain corsets in battle 🗡

“People think intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is ‘You’re safe with me’ - that’s intimacy.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Christina Mancinas, “Holzer Madlib (tru-ishisms)” Inkjet print. 17x11 in. 2014

Executive dysfunction in a nutshell

“Conversation should touch everything, but concentrate itself on nothing.” – Oscar Wilde