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Central Park at Night by Johann Henrik Carl Berthelsen
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“Faith in life, in oneself, in others must be built on the hard rock of realism; that is to say, on the capacity to see evil where it is, to see swindle, destructiveness, and selfishness not only when they are obvious but in their many disguises and rationalisations. Indeed, faith, love, and hope must go together with such a passion for seeing reality in all its nakedness that the outsider would be prone to call the attitude ‘cynicism.’ And cynical it is, when we mean by it the refusal to be taken in by the sweet and plausible lies that cover almost everything that is said and believed. But this kind of cynicism is not cynicism; it is uncompromisingly critical, a refusal to play the game in a system of deception.”
— Erich Fromm, The Art of Being (via ophelia-network)
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Photo - AD Italia, September 1991.
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Years without posting here, so Arggghhhhhh!
“Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals (1822–1863)
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thewildswan · 6 years
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New Year’s Snow by Eric Ravilious 1938.
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Alleluia by Thomas Cooper Gotch 1896.
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In case you forgot the date….
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‘Vom Himmel durch die tiefsten Klüfte, ein milder Stern hernieder lacht. 
Vom Tannenwalde steigen Düfte und helle wird die Winternacht.’
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Christmas tree, Lobby of the Edison Building, Los Angeles, December 24, 1934
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The Forest Fairy: Christmas in Switzerland by E. H. K. Hugessen (1896).
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The London Illustrated News, Christmas number 1961
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Medford Mail Tribune, Oregon, November 6, 1933
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