#literature

...wanting connections,
we found connections ~ always,
everywhere, and between everything.

Umberto Eco ~ Foucault's Pendulum

Muti ~ Verdi
https://youtu.be/bmCXWtqDqIA?si=Jo6Z6r2_fGp4v5Bz

Photo Yoshikazu Tanaka

#Bookstodon #Literature #Photography

"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare."

— Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light (1988)

She wrote that while she was dying, which is the detail people leave out when they put it on a candle. Not a bath. The decision to keep a body alive that a system had already written off, and to understand that decision as strategy.

What have you stopped protecting?

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/count-the-motherfuckers-back-a-stolen-election-1-6-million-photographs-and-124-graves#the-practice-armor-you-can-wear-tom?utm_source=PixelFed&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica

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My very first #StatuenSamstag which might also qualify for today's #FotoVorschlag... Maybe? A little bit?

#TheLittlePrince, #Kyiv 🇺🇦 by Konstantin Skretutskiy

#Kiev #Ukraine #LePetitPrince #AntoineDeSaintExupery #StatueSaturday #art #sculpture #mosaicart #streetart #publicsculpture #publicart #modernsculpture #whimsical #sweet #artinstallation #literature #classicliterature #books #bookstodon #innerchild #interestingplaces #photography #Fotografie #amateurphotography

Adieu, vive clarté de nos étés trop courts !

Baudelaire ~ Chant d’Automne

Hélène Grimaud
https://youtu.be/Me9YHA50Z8w?si=64vUPdw2GvqM7sZI

Photo Rob Visser

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...et les maisons, les routes, les avenues, sont fugitives, hélas! comme les années.

Proust ~ Du côté de chez Swann

Jan Lisiecki ~ Chopin
https://youtu.be/xM4v3xaSU6s?si=oCTHgoPC8Nkx01_R

Photo Brassaï

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La vie remplit toutes les conditions
qu'exige l'insoluble.

Cioran ~ Cahier

Lang Lang ~ Bach Prelude C Major
https://youtu.be/5URnYEKXb0k?si=_crjvocoP4jfeK3X

Photo Marcus Cederberg

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Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves.

Shakespeare ~ Troilus and Cressida

Photo Rob Visser

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Reminded me of The House of a Thousand Floors (1929), a strange sci-fi dystopian novel I read many years ago by the Czech author Jan Weiss.

#photography #ricoh #ricohgr #sooc #books #literature #scifi

Ce que la photographie reproduit à l'infini n'a eu lieu qu'une fois...

Roland Barthes ~ La chambre claire

Photo Peter Lindbergh

#bookstodon #blackandwhite #Literature

Le plus sceptique de tous.

Est le temps, qui fait du Oui avec du Non,
de l'amour avec de la haine, et le contraire.

Paul Valéry, Psaume T

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Paolo Conte, Parigi
https://youtu.be/4eqjESxHOS4?si=DhUiVa2cROB5K_wh

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Foto Andrej Stepanov

#bookstodon #Blackandwhite #Literature

L'impossible, nous ne l'atteignons pas
mais il nous sert de lanterne.

René Char, L'Âge Cassant
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Sviatoslav Richter · J. S. Bach
https://youtu.be/S-WWdQKkwtU?si=LNcarN1zVFkHLxKC

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Photo Saif Ali

#bookstodon #Literature #photography #music

Everything that is expressed
becomes more tolerable.

Emil Cioran, letter to Gabriel Liiceanu 28 June 1983

Photo: Mario Giacomelli

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Men always believe, when they hear words,
there must be thought behind them,
too.

Goethe · Faust

Photo: Kathrin Federer

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Je ne pourrais être heureux que dans un monde
où le sens du temps n'existerait pas.

Cioran, Cahiers

Photo: rym.nur

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If you are not too long,
I will wait here for you all my life.

Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Photo: Daniel Rueda & Anna Devís

#Wilde #Literature #photography

…fabulous film-noir stills of Central Station
of freezing fog silvering the chilled, stilled parks
of the glamorous past
where drops on a rainmate are sequins
in the lamplight, in the black-and-white…

—Liz Lochhead, “Some Old Photographs”

Today, 19 August, is World Photography Day

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/resources/images/8209217/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #photography #WorldPhotographyDay

E. -On a beau se démener.
V. -On reste ce qu'on est.
E. -On a beau se tortiller.
V. -Le fond ne change pas.

Beckett, En attendant Godot
Photo: Raul Cantu

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