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Cabaret du Néant (Tavern of the Dead), ca. 1890

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OBSESSED with Bella the Bride @ Vivienne Westwood 2020

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Gaurav Gupta Spring 2024 Haute Couture

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sometimes im like…..what is the point of all this ??? and then i hang out with the people i love, and for a brief moment, i see

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(via Alessandro Michele: Der Ex-Gucci-Designer zeigt uns sein faszinierendes Zuhause in Rom | Vogue Germany)

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Osip Mandelstam (translated by Andrew Davis)

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Prefix ’re’ in English, the most beautiful words, beautiful concepts. Resurrection. Return. Revolution. Redesign. Rediscover. Release. Relent. Reconfigure. Reject. To burst forth again after some kind of collapse. To deny the collapse and begin again. The denial that affirms. The Sacred No. The Holy Yes. But we don’t say Relove. One always loves. One stops loving. Even here the prefix has its limits.

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maybe anais nin was right maybe it really is possible to touch the bottom of suffering and then rebel, violently and definitely

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who knows how to overcome the inability to feel loved by others btw

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[me, flirting] so do you think we consume poetry or poetry consumes us?

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“It’s not ‘natural’ to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little–have few verbal means. Eloquence–thinking in words–is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality.”

— Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh (via the-book-diaries)

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October study vibes

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“And I’m mocked by friends who say, ‘What use is poetry? What use will it be when the war ends?’ But I’m screaming at a moment when screams can go nowhere. And it strikes me that language must force itself into a battle in which voices are not equal. (…) —But what are you writing? ‘I’m stammering out a scream,’ I answer.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, from Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)

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Devin Kelly, All that wanting, right?

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