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There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you—may cleanse you of your darkness. Do you want to go down to the pits of yourself all alone? Not much. What if an actor could do it for you? Isn't that why they are called actors? They act for you. You sacrifice them to action. And this sacrifice is a mode of deepest intimacy of you with your own life.

Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides; Tragedy: A Curious Art Form.

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Martin Schongauer 1420-1491 - St Sebastian. Engraving, circa, 1469-74

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The mosaic floor of a dining room in a Roman villa in Antandros in Anatolia, which was occupied between the 3rd and 6th centuries AD.

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obviously anne rice had her issues but thank god someone out there was perverting words from catholic liturgies for gay vampire stories. really important

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being as i am an idiot, and having been one my whole life, i just wanna say that i find it very easy to do nothing, and go nowhere. i eat chocolate late at night in the dark. i stand in the garden also. and i’m often waiting for something to happen. and i’m stupid.

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Joy Sullivan, from “Culpable”, Instructions for Traveling West

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“At a meeting just outside Paris, a fifteen-year-old girl came up to me and said that she’d been to see [The Double Life of] Véronique. She’d gone once, twice, three times and only wanted to say one thing really - that she realized that there is such a thing as a soul. She hadn’t known before, but now she knew that the soul does exist. There’s something very beautiful in that. It was worth making Véronique for that girl. It was worth working for a year, sacrificing all that money, energy, time, patience, torturing yourself, killing yourself, taking thousands of decisions, so that one young girl in Paris should realize that there is such a thing as a soul. It’s worth it.”

— KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI, from Kieslowski on Kieslowski. 

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Dino Valls, Proscaenia (detail), , 2011.

Oil on wood, 100 x 70 cm.

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nap time =^..^=

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Socrates in the symposium saying he's afraid of Alcibiades' φιλεραστια: literally "the love for lovers/one's lover" . that's a cute word.

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JUNE: LUCREZIA & JUAN BORGIA DEATH MONTH Lucrezia died in June 24, 1519 (from complications after childbirth) Juan died in June 14, 1497 (murdered under mysterious circumstance) Both died in June, but 22 years apart.

"At San Sisto, Lucrezia had learned of the death ofJuan certainly with great pain, because she had a passionate attachment to her family. On this elegant and brilliant brother she thought she could count in the future and in all circumstances. It can be supposed—and one will recall Juan’s interest in his sister—that, with the easy benevolence of wealthy and fortunate men toward the women of their own household, Juan had made her great promises to help resolve the vexing problem of her future. Among others, there was the promise, repeated by the chroniclers right after the flight of the Count of Pesaro, to take her with him to the dreamland of the Borgias, Spain. Sudden and cruel death, uncertainty, and isolation had followed all these plans." — THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LUCREZIA BORGIA (Maria Bellonci)

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Udo Kier and Corinne Cléry on the set of The Story of O (𝟣𝟫𝟩𝟧) dir. Just Jaeckin.

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Pen drawing of a girl in a Parisian attic by Nakahara Junichi, drawn after he visited Paris and first published in the Himawari issue of September 1951.

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francesca woodman in her studio (1976)

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Can I touch ur femoral artery

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