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The end of August...Fading Shadow...

#photo source maximusai

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“I wanted to be chosen, maybe loved. I wanted out of my life, out of my skin,”

~•Susan Abulhawa•~

#Susan Abulhawa, from Against the Loveless World: A Novel

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August...

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And again there was silence, and again the ghost of summer.

~•Anna Akhmatova•~

#Anna Akhmatova “And in the depths of music...” from Poems, 1957-1966, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova #photo Louis Michel, Alys #photo source gacougnol

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It is evening. The moon rises, almost full. It is August, and August evenings are melancholy.

~• Christa Wolf •~

#Christa Wolf, from her essay collection titled "One Day a Year: 1960–2000," originally published in 2003 #photo elegyforadream

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I oscillate between thinking I am crazy and thinking I am not crazy enough.

~• Joyce Carol Oates •~

#Joyce Carol Oates #source nitch

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What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream ?

~•Umberto Eco•~

#Umberto Eco #David Lowery #A Ghost Story

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" It's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand."

~• Clarice Lispector •~

#Clarice Lispector #Photo Claudia Andujar #source nitch

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No longer knowing if we are asleep or awake...

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There is nothing absolute

Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves.

Everything flies and goes away.

~•Frida Kahlo•~

#Frida Kahlo #the diary of Frida Kahlo, An intimate self portrait.

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Morning 🌞 plums plums plums, August...🌞

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On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively, during World War II. The aerial bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians ....

#Grave of the fireflies #Isao Takahata #wars

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The wind is level now, the earth is wet with dew,

the storm of stars in the sky will turn to quiet.

~•Marina Tsvetaeva•~

#Marina Tsvetaeva, I know the truth 1915

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One Summer Morning...

#Schloß Vogelöd // Castle Vogeloed aka The Haunted Castle (1921) dir. F.W. Murnau

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This is the voice of reason.

The alternative is Hell.

#source thisispattismith

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Saturday....morning.....🌞

August of another summer, and

once again

I am drinking the sun....

~• Mary Oliver •~

#beloved Mary Oliver #The Pond #summer poem #beautiful

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We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates .

~• Jun'ichirō Tanizaki •~

#Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In praise of shadows #photo... on tumblr