or maybe yes

nature boy

About desires (Márai)

"Life becomes bearable only when one has come to terms with who one is, both in one's own eyes and in the eyes of the world. We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognise that this wisdom is not going to earn us any praise, that life is not going to pin a medal on us for recognising and enduring our own vanity or egoism or baldness or our pot-belly. No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure out characters and our natures as best as we can, because no amount of experience or insight is going to rectify our deficiencies, our self-regard, or our cupidity. We have to learn that our desires do not find any real echo in the world. We have to accept the people we love do not love us, or not in the way we hope. We have to accept betrayal and disloyalty, and hardest of all, that someone is finer than we are in character or intelligence."

Sándor Márai: Embers

vasarnap van

the mirror slid down this morning. for a moment i felt i was falling.

at early down i still hoped the night would stay

 

...there are those things that having looked at in vain I never dare to see, which are all the things I love (in their presence I no longer see anything else); there are those things that others have seen, and that by means of suggestion they are able or unable to make me see also; there are also those things that I see differently from other people, and those things that I begin to see and that are not visible.

(Andre Breton: Surrealism and Painting)

Man is animal; man is plant and flower; in him slumbers the beast, in him lives mimosa-like softness.

(Alexander Blok: The Decline of Humanism)

Everything where it belongs

I'll make a shrine for you

"Do you also believe that what gives our lives their meaning is the passion that suddenly invades us heart, soul, and body, and burns in us forever, no matter what else happens in our lives? And that if we have experienced this much, then perhaps we haven’t lived in vain? Is passion so deep and terrible and magnificent and inhuman? Is it indeed about desiring any one person, or is it about desiring desire itself?"

(Sandor Marai, Embers)

Connect

We are all flesh

Berlinde de Bruyckere
the daughter of a butcher

"At least I would live closely with a great human wild animal, I would keep watch over, share, and be a companion in his life. Steep myself in it. Take part in it. Deviate and imbalanced he was..."

(Blaise Cendrars: Moravagine)

Egon Schiele - Freundschaft