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loneliness and hopelessness come hand-in-hand when you think too much

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ARCHIMUSIC: Illustrations Turn Music Into Architecture  |  Federico Babina

- Music and architecture are intimately joined by a cosmic connection. They both are generated by an underlying code, an order revealed by mathematics and geometry. […] in these images architecture and music share a clear cultural lineage. The color and the different nuances of music shape the forms and volumes. Reading horizontally gives some basic melodic lines, while reading vertically reveals both harmony and dissonance. A building like an harmonic progression following the movement of chords. A spatial progression that is equivalent to the harmonic progression through chords. Generate a rhythm of solids and voids to reproduce the sequences of notes and silences.

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"I want to feel something, as a person. I don’t want to be bored."

Pina Bausch

Photo: Donata Wenders

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Find the thing in you that is different, that’s as sharp as a diamond and jagged as a razor. Hone that, because that’s the thing with which you’ll cut the world. If you try to stay a safe and soft and average, then you’re going to get lost in the sea of all those other things that look just like you. Find the things about yourself that are weird and cultivate them because, eventually, those are the things the world is going to want to reward you for and that will bring you the most happiness. When you’re young, those are the things that cause you so much pain, but it’s that pain that makes you unique. Own your scars.

Clayton Cubitt, The Great Discontent (via phenomenaaa)

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Architecture is the expression of every society’s very being. But only the ideal being of society, the one that issues orders and interdictions with authority, is expressed in architectural compositions in the strict sense of the word. Thus great monuments rise up like levees, opposing the logic of majesty and authority to any confusion: Church and State in the form of cathedrals and palaces speak to the multitudes, or silence them. It is obvious that monuments inspire social good behaviour in societies and often even real fear. The storming of the Bastille is symbolic of this state of affairs: it is hard to explain this mass movement other than through the people’s animosity against the monuments that are its real masters.

Georges Bataille, ‘Architecture’ (via antineutral)

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All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry—all forms of fear—are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

Eckhart Tolle (via wordsnquotes)

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From Katie Mitchell’s “…some trace of her”, based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot (2008)

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We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts.

Ingmar Bergman, from a letter to Liv Ullmann, cited in "Liv & Ingmar" (2012)

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I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?

Neil Gaiman || A Study in Emerald (via socratic-thinker)

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There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.

Gayle Forman, Just One Year (via seabois)

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If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

Stephen Fry (via wordsnquotes)

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A heart is to be spent.

Stephen Dunn, from Different Hours (via violentwavesofemotion)

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10/10 what a beauty

Bill Skarsgård for H&M

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I choose to love you in silence… For in silence I find no rejection,I choose to love you in loneliness… For in loneliness no one owns you but me,I choose to adore you from a distance… For distance will shield me from pain,I choose to kiss you in the wind… For the wind is gentler than my lips,I choose to hold you in my dreams… For in my dreams, you have no end.

Rumi  (via mrsfscottfitzgerald)

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It’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don’t do it.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via feellng)

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The photo series ‘Per Color’ reveals the intentional design of supermarkets, where  colorful packaging lures us to products which we’ve lost every natural relation to.