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“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”
— Albert Camus
Art: Jan Matejko’s \ Stańczyk (1862)

He’s the only one not dancing.
To know is to carry the weight alone.
Wisdom doesn’t laugh. It watches.
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" In each of us there is another whom we do not know. "
- Carl Jung
Art: unknown "found in the wilde!"

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"Every superior human being will instinctively aspire after a secret citadel where he is set free from the crowd."
-Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil.
Art: Wanderer above the see of fog by Caspar David Friedrich.

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"I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person."
-Emil M. Cioran
Art: The deserter by Tomasz Alen Kopera
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"Once you start to speak of things that are precious, you are immediately anxious about how people will react to what you have said, and you want to protect these things, to defend them against incomprehension."
- Andrie Tarkovsky
Art: Automat - Edward Hopper

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'When man was finally able to stop and stand up in front of the mirror of himself, he realized his condition was time. We can laugh or cry, love or suffer, but the one thing that's not negotiable is death. " - Walter mehrer
Art: Gustav klimt ( Death and life)

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"We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness"
Arthur Schopenhauer
Movie: Three colors: Red
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Nostalgia (1983)

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Source:FB
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"Time spent with cats is never wasted" - Freud








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"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible."
Carl Gustav Jung

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