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GAO XINGJIAN 高行健 / BY THE LAKE / 2008 [scroll: ink on canvas | 51 1/8 x 76 3/8″]
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“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
~ Aldous Huxley
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2017 In Review
#data#quantifiedself#visualsoflife#datavisualization#dataviz#new year#review#statistics#design#information#information design
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A Treemansion. Pete Nelson’s creation 25-feet up in mature hemlock trees. The treehouse accommodates 4 persons and has full plumbing with cold and hot water. The stiff construction survived a hurricane in 2011. Located in Topridge, New York.
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…throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘here is my thanks to the monster who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive.’
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Ray Bradbury (via thatlitsite)
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Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
The Illiad by Homer (via literarylines)
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It’s not possible to comfort every grief, there is some grief that ends only after the exhaustion of the heart, in long oblivion or in the distraction of the cares of daily living.
Andrei Platonov (via hexprecious)
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Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.
Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild (via cybergirlfriend)
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I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
Langston Hughes (via observando)
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