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Edie Sedgwick, c. 1960s.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:31:54 -0400

Edie Sedgwick, c. 1960s.

"All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:22:02 -0400

“All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.”

- Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This for You.

"Something funny happens to people who are lonely. The lonelier they get, the less adept they become..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:06:54 -0400

“Something funny happens to people who are lonely. The lonelier they get, the less adept they become at navigating social currents. Loneliness grows around them, like mould or fur, a prophylactic that inhibits contact, no matter how badly contact is desired. Loneliness is accretive, extending and perpetuating itself. Once it becomes impacted, it isn’t easy to dislodge.”

- Olivia Laing, Me, Myself and I.

Rita Hayworth, c. 1951.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:00:44 -0400

Rita Hayworth, c. 1951.

"We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight,..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:39:21 -0400

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I. The body lives by itself once it has begun. But thought —..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:38:54 -0400

“I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I. The body lives by itself once it has begun. But thought — I am the one who continues it, unrolls it. I exist. How serpentine is this feeling of existing — I unwind it, slowly…If I could keep myself from thinking! I think I don’t want to think. I mustn’t think that I don’t want to think. Because that’s still a thought. Will there ever be an end to it? My thought is me: that’s why I can’t stop. I exist because I think…and I can’t stop myself from thinking.”

- Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea.

"The silence was enchanting. Infinite space seemed to enter it, and my spirit, alone with the stars,..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:24:29 -0400

“The silence was enchanting. Infinite space seemed to enter it, and my spirit, alone with the stars, seemed capable of any adventure.”

- W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up.

"But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:11:42 -0400

“But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.”

- Albert Camus

Is This Love (Horns Mix), Bob Marley and The Wailers, 1978.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:33:00 -0400

Is This Love (Horns Mix), Bob Marley and The Wailers, 1978.

"You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong then you lack..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:28:28 -0400

“You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.”

- Unknown

"All I can say is this: I am a man like so many others, living through my own experience, a man who..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:25:04 -0400

“All I can say is this: I am a man like so many others, living through my own experience, a man who looks at things around him humbly, respectfully with naive curiosity, and above all with love. This love produces the tenderness and pity which I feel towards everyone I meet. I am not a pessimist and I don’t want to be one, but my preference is for those who suffer most, who are the victimes of evil, injustice and deceit.”

- Federico Fellini

Photo by Nacio Jan Brown, Berkeley, California, 1973.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:09:00 -0400

Photo by Nacio Jan Brown, Berkeley, California, 1973.

"Just as many girls can be immensely harmed by the impossible cultural demands to be pretty, slim..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:05:29 -0400

“Just as many girls can be immensely harmed by the impossible cultural demands to be pretty, slim princesses, so too are many boys immensely harmed by exhortations to never cry, toughen up and be a man. Please, let our children be children.”

- Stephen Fry

"There is always something, a remnant, which will never come out from your brain, but will remain..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:18:21 -0400

“There is always something, a remnant, which will never come out from your brain, but will remain there with you, and you alone, for ever and ever, and you will die, perhaps, without having imparted what may be the very essence of your idea to a single living soul.”

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot.

Elizabeth Taylor by Roddy McDowall, 1956.

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:16:00 -0400

Elizabeth Taylor by Roddy McDowall, 1956.

I Am a Rock, Simon and Garfunkel, 1966.

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:23:00 -0400

I Am a Rock, Simon and Garfunkel, 1966.

Françoise Hardy.

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:34:16 -0400

Françoise Hardy.

"I don’t give a shit what the world thinks. I was born a bitch, I was born a painter, I was born..."

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:32:59 -0400

“I don’t give a shit what the world thinks. I was born a bitch, I was born a painter, I was born fucked. But I was happy in my way. You did not understand what I am. I am love. I am pleasure, I am essence, I am an idiot, I am an alcoholic, I am tenacious. I am; simply I am…You are a shit.”

- Frida Kahlo, from anunsent letter to Diego Rivera.

"My life didn’t please me, so I created my life."

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:30:10 -0400

“My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.”

- Coco Chanel

"If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:57:52 -0400

“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”

- Edward Hopper