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— Mary Oliver, Entering the Kingdom

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Man Ray, Simone Khan, 1937

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Nude (Study), c.1980

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Women Reading

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The iris. House and Garden. June 1949.

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Marigold Flowers in Nepal by Skanda Gautam

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Advertisement for Ritalin, 1957

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The goal of the society where you live is to destroy you. You have the same goal with regard to society. The weapon that it will use is indifference. You cannot allow yourself to have the same attitude. Attack! All societies have their points of least resistance, their wounds. Put your finger on the wound, and press down hard. Delve into the subjects that no one wants to hear about. The other side of the scenery. Insist upon sickness, agony, ugliness. Speak of death, and of oblivion. Of jealousy, of indifference, of frustration, of the absence of love. Be abject, and you will be true.

TO STAY ALIVE 

A Method

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A quick test of the assertion that enjoyment outweighs pain in this world, or that they are at any rate balanced, would be to compare the feelings of an animal engaged in eating another with those of the animal being eaten.

The scenes of our life resemble pictures in rough mosaic; they are ineffective from close up, and have to be viewed from a distance if they are to seem beautiful. That is why to attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and why, though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely that in expectation of which they lived.

Arthur Schopenhauer, "On the suffering of the world"

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Moonchild (Detail), 2017 - Santiago Caruso

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