Didn’t you tell me that pain is part of life? I think that we can only feel happiness and true connection to others in rare, intensive moments and that we are condemned to loneliness for most of the time. I shared such moments with you, an intensity that will never be destroyed, regardless of doors you closed and sealed.

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The mere word 'freedom' is the only one that still excites me. [...] Among all the many misfortunes to which we are heir, it is only fair to admit that we are allowed the greatest degree of freedom of thought. [...] Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be, and this is enough to devote myself to it without fear of making a mistake ( Read more... )

On that day I discovered the marvellous art of James Elaine, who plants in books & botanizes animals.


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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Gilbert K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

At the end of the 19th century they must have taken him for an odd fellow in his provincial home town in Germany.


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A friend of mine, Cornelius, drew this picture for me:


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He was an artist before he became a madman.


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Eve made a deal with Death, sealed by the serpent.


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...then, exiled

Like losing thoughts, they go in silence; some
Sheepishly stray, not back into their lives
Just yet; but some stay stiff, twitching and loud
With deep hoarse tears, as if a kind of dumb
And idiot child within them still survives
To re-awake at kindness.
Philip Larkin, Faith Healing


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Der Ausbruch war wunderbar werbewirksam.
Heini Hediger, Wildtiere in Gefangenschaft - ein Grundriss der Tiergartenbiologie, Basel 1942


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I first saw it in the Museum der Bildenden Künste in Leipzig, a fascinating small oil painting from the late fifteenth century by an anonymus Rhenish Painter.

The Love Spell


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