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Like a weird flower

25 Sunday Oct 2020

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1957 Chevrolet, Christine and the Queens, CUBAN Hand Made, Rudolf Nureyev

“I love people who go on stage and blossom like a weird flower”. Christine and the Queens

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We have to go

21 Wednesday Oct 2020

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Jack Kerouac

We have to go and not stop until we get there.Where are we going?I don’t know, but we have to go.( On the Road) Jack Kerouac

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Boire un peu d’eau.

20 Tuesday Oct 2020

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Thomas d'Ansembourg

La priorité de l’instant est de boire un peu d’eau.

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The only beauty possible

20 Tuesday Oct 2020

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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Raymonde de Laroche

The most beautiful people we’ve known are those who have known defeat, suffering, effort, loss and found their way out of the dark. These people have an esteem, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, kindness and an interest of deep love. Beautiful people don’t just happen; they were formed.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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How I see green and red

18 Sunday Oct 2020

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Color blindness, Francis Bacon, Franck Maubert

“Perhaps I continue because my obsession eludes me. Creation is an absolute necessity that makes you forget everything else. I didn’t think I was going to support myself by painting, I just wanted to clarify things with myself. Creation is like love, nothing can be done about it. It is a necessity.”
Francis Bacon, Conversation with Franck Maubert

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Reflecting is listening stronger

16 Friday Oct 2020

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Ando Fuchs, August Strindberg

This is finally loneliness: wrapping yourself in the silk of your soul, getting chrysalis and waiting for metamorphosis, which you cannot miss. Meanwhile you live of your own experiences and telepathically you live other people’s life […].Finally you only own yourself. Other people’s thoughts don’t control mine anymore; opinions, other people’s tantrums don’t upset me anymore. Now the soul starts to mature in regained freedom and I feel an immense inner peace, a serene pleasure, a sense of certainty and responsibility. If I reflect on the social life that should be some kind of gym, I can’t now but judge it other than a school of vices. If you carry a sense of beauty, being forced to see ugliness is a real torture, which deceitfully drives you to consider yourself a martyr. Closing your eyes to injustice just because of it teaches you little by little to become a hypocrite. Getting used to constantly suppressing your opinions and always because of it, makes you vile. August Strindberg, ′′ Alone ′′

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From the bottom

15 Thursday Oct 2020

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Elvio Fachinelli

“I became quieter and more attentive; more receptive maybe. I no longer believe, if I have ever believed it, in assertions, affirmative or peremptory style, in setting and program speeches. What’s important comes from bottom, from silence, from a kind of passivity. Which doesn’t mean: slowly; no, actually sometimes it means: abruptly, suddenly, but always from the bottom, like a different voice and together always clear, clear (…) I’ve learned to live the discontinuous, not demanding security passages where there is no one or at least where I don’t know anyone. :Endure the anguish. Endure loneliness. (…) I am deviated by a more urgent, cooler interest. Even if afterwards, I can see that deep down I have moved on in the groove of a line present from long time ago.” Elvio Fachinelli

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Great fire

14 Wednesday Oct 2020

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CHanging the earth, Emmet Gowin, Vincent van Gogh

“Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way. So what to do, revive this inner fire, have salt in oneself, wait patiently yet with how much impatience -, wait for the moment when, I tell myself, someone will come to sit in front of this fire, and maybe it will stop .” Vincent Van Gogh

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Hidden bosom

09 Friday Oct 2020

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Trumpet

What you can’t say out loud because it’s too true, you don’t use to tell the great truths by speaking. The truth of what happens in the hidden bosom of time is the silence of lives, and that cannot be said. There are things you can’t say , and it’s unquestionable. But it’s exactly what you can’t say that you should sing.

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Observing

08 Thursday Oct 2020

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Nicolás Gómez Dávila, pumpkin

“Only he lives his life who observes it, thinks it, and says it; the rest let life live them”. Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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