June 17th, 2013
I was inventing a Language for people to see… — Francesca Woodman, last journal entry, January 19, 1981
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June 11th, 2013
It is not the figure of seduction that is mysterious, but that of the subject tormented by his own desire or his own image. — Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories, translation by Chris Turner (via frenchtwist)
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June 9th, 2013

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“Being your slave, what should I do but tend
Upon the hours and times of your desire?”

Shakespeare, Sonnet LVII

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May 31st, 2013

I want to repost all my quotes…

in the new SHOUTING format

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May 12th, 2013
I’d woken up early and I took a long time getting ready to exist. —

The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa

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til noon at least…

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April 28th, 2013
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. — Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (via frenchtwist)
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April 26th, 2013
Dying is nothing, you have to know how to disappear. — Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories, translation by Chris Turner (via frenchtwist)
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April 22nd, 2013
There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night. — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (via frenchtwist)
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April 17th, 2013
“Everything can be seen through the body of the woman.”Tono Stano, 1994Also
“Everything can be seen through the body of the woman.”
Tono Stano, 1994

Also

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April 16th, 2013
I want to resemble a sort of liquid light which stretches beyond visibility or invisibility. Tonight I wish to have the valor and daring to belong to the moon. —

Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary

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