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“Twilight was reaching its climax, no doubt: the last fires of the sun, like a violent dermatitis, ruched and ravined the horizon, giving it blisters, edema, and creases — the yellows, oranges, turquoise, ocher, reddish purples, crimsons, and browns became more vivid as the star descended, becoming bruises, scales, scabs, clots, and even bleeding eviscerations, as though the sky were reproducing the painful sequence of it's birth, what psychoanalysts call repetition compulsion.”
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“He keeps us waiting rather than wishing for him. I feel it a matter of perfect indifference whether he arrives at any moment or not at all.” — Lady Harriet Cavendish of George Beau Brummell”
― Beau Brummell: The Ultimate Man of Style
― Beau Brummell: The Ultimate Man of Style
“I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it." - reference to Andy Warhol”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
“When I'm painting people in clothes I'm always thinking very much of naked people, or animals dressed.”
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“Ruhe gibt es nicht, bis zum Schluss. Und dann? Auch am Schluss steht noch ein Fragezeichen.
(There is no peace until the end and even then there would still be a question mark.)”
― Der Wendepunkt
(There is no peace until the end and even then there would still be a question mark.)”
― Der Wendepunkt
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