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In a jasper fable, my dream glittered all the more blue.

Shuzo Takiguchi, The Fish’s Desire

#the fish's desire #shuzo takiguchi #the paris review #paris review #poem #poetry #jasper #blue #dream #glitter

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And the heart does not die when one thinks it should, we smile, there is tea and bread on the table. (...)

Czesław Miłosz, Elegy for N.N.

#czeslaw milosz #elegy for n.n. #heart #heart does not die #die #tea and bread #tea #bread

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‘The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.’

- Marc Chagall

#chagall #marc chagall #garnier #paris #palais garnier #dignity #dignity of the artist #beginner artist #wonder #sense of wonder

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

Marc Chagall

#marc chagall #artist #dignity #wonder #wonder of the world #chagall

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n. a moment of awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life, and somewhere in the hallways of their personality is a door locked from the inside, a stairway leading to a wing of the house that you’ve never fully explored—an unfinished attic that will remain maddeningly unknowable to you, because ultimately neither of you has a map, or a master key, or any way of knowing exactly where you stand.

Erik Satî // Gnossienne no. 1

#gnossienne #erik satie #satie #dictionary of obscure sorrows

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Nous réveiller tous les matins aussi surpris de nous trouver si bien dans le même lit, de ne désirer rien de plus que ce si quotidien plaisir d'être ensemble, aussi bien.

- Jamais je ne t’ai dit que je t’aimerai toujours

#Jamais je ne t’ai dit que je t’aimerai toujours #anna karina #jean-luc godard #pierrot le fou #jeanne moreau

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A box of photographs on a blue night, Paris blue. A box of ribbons, postcards, old tickets, faces, and rose petals. "You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again." - Homer https://yarazgheib.com/?p=2677 #nonutilitarian #thenonutilitarian #yarazgheib https://www.instagram.com/p/CHQUgmqF2rN/?igshid=bpmqxgp9qipd

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A post on happily ever after. I glimpsed it once, tasted it, red and perfect as a ripe tomato, fresh as basil freshly picked, somewhere in the Tuscan countryside. Somewhere on a hill. https://yarazgheib.com/?p=2735 #nonutilitarian #thenonutilitarian #yarazgheib https://www.instagram.com/p/CGpNck8FN-d/?igshid=1361lfvtdh8wg

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Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death.

Mavis Gallant

#mavis gallant #literature #life and death #life #death #art

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I found a secret garden. It's wonderful, so wonderful I had to take you. Come, it's on the top floor. https://yarazgheib.com/?p=2690 #yarazgheib #nonutilitarian #thenonutilitarian https://www.instagram.com/p/CFjv1AyHxRM/?igshid=1ttlycmbohe9d

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When I am among the trees,

especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness. I would almost say that they save me, and daily. I am so distant from the hope of myself, in which I have goodness, and discernment, and never hurry through the world but walk slowly, and bow often. Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, “Stay awhile.” The light flows from their branches. And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say, “and you too have come into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine.”

- Mary Oliver, When I am Among the Trees

#mary oliver #when I am among the trees #poem #poetry #trees #presence #mindfulness #ligh #shi #go easy #come into the world #stay awhile

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The sea silently outstretched beneath the moon. Yes, it is here that I feel the right to die peacefully, here that I can say: “I was weak, yet I have done what I could.”

Albert Camus (1913-1960), from “Notebooks 1951-1959″, translated from the French by Ryan Bloom (Notebook VII, December 51)

#albert camus #camus #notebooks #sea #moon #die #live #existentialism #existentialist #existentielisme

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Air.

cinemagraph artist on instagram

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I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

—Mary Oliver, The Summer Day

#mary oliver #the summer day #summer #strawberries #strawberry #lynne cartlidge #poem #poetry

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I am haunted by waters. It may be that I’m too dry in myself, too English, or it may be simply that I’m susceptible to beauty, but I do not feel truly at ease on this earth unless there’s a river nearby. “When it hurts,” wrote the Polish poet Czeslaw Miłosz, “we return to the banks of certain rivers,” and I take comfort in his words, for there’s a river I’ve returned to over and again, in sickness and in health, in grief, in desolation and in joy.

- Olivia Laing,  To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface

Lynne Cartlidge, Anemone, Bluebells and Aquilegia

#lynne cartlidge #anemone #bluebells #aquilegia #cazeslaw milosz #water #rivers #to the river #olivia laing #laing #journey beneath the surface

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So long as that woman from the Rijksmuseum in painted quiet and concentration keeps pouring milk day after day from the pitcher to the bowl the World hasn’t earned the world’s end.

- Wislawa Szymborska, Vermeer

#vermeer #wislawa szymborska #szymborska #milkmaid #rijksmuseum #poem #poetry

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...lover of maps and Camus.

- P.L.

By: George

#P.L. #camus #albert camus #paris #map #maps #breakfast #petit dejeuner #croissant #croissants #baguette #mandarine #tour eiffel #eiffel tower #hotel chevalier #plan chevalier