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perfection is beyond human grasp – the challenge is to fail better and in ways that improve things.

George Orwell.

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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Albert Camus.

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Photographer: Consuelo Kanaga. Her portrait of then unknown 20 year old actor, Kenneth Spencer in 1933.

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Perhaps, that’s what I’m trying to do here – to build a staircase out of words, to climb towards you to the sky or descend into the grave and lie down beside you.

Raaza Jamshed. What Kept You?

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Photographer: Zay Yar Lin. Mother and daughter in Mù Cang Chải, Vietnam, after the corn harvest. Finalist in 2025 Flow Photo Contest.

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Postcard showing the entrance of the Métropolitain station, Place de la Bastille, in Paris, circa 1908. Paris' iconic Métro stations were designed by architect Hector Guimard.

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What is wrong with me that I can have everything I could ever want, and everything I have ever asked for, and can still wake up in the morning feeling like every day is a slog?

Becky Chambers. A psalm for the wild-built: A Monk and Robot book.

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Sarah Lightman. John for Dinner, 2022.

297 x 420 mm

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Singapore Botanic Gardens

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Meret Oppenheim.

Das Auge der Mona Lisa, 1967.

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Something about the nasty little packets overcame me; it was to do with splitting everything into awful, unnatural fragments. The loneliness and waste of it.

Charlotte Wood. Stone Yard Devotional.

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I knew then what I know now

I may lose it for a second now and then.

Sjowgren, Now and then.

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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

Edgar Allan Poe.

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We're just flesh with socks and locks and frocks

And I am here to say to you

On the day that I die I'll just give a smile and fly into the blue

Cause we're all just, Protons, neutrons, electrons that rest on a Sunday, work on a Monday...

The Cat Empire, Protons, neutrons, electrons.

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Tears, like blood, were wrung from the same warm bodies.

Haruki Murakami. The city and its uncertain walls, 2024.