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"English priest, Father Edward Taylor, to whom Toklas talked at great length before deciding to convert. (Taylor expressed some discomfort taking confession in a room decorated with paintings of naked women; Toklas made some small skirts and bodices from cloth and paper, and attached them to the Picassos before he arrived.)" — Feb 04, 2026 11:56AM
"English priest, Father Edward Taylor, to whom Toklas talked at great length before deciding to convert. (Taylor expressed some discomfort taking confession in a room decorated with paintings of naked women; Toklas made some small skirts and bodices from cloth and paper, and attached them to the Picassos before he arrived.)" — Feb 04, 2026 11:56AM
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"Yourcenar on behalf of Tommai dei Cavalieri, Michelangelo’s friend and possibly lover:
‘When men contemplate my picture, they will not ask who I was or what I did: they will praise me for having existed.”
I often look at a portrait in a gallery thinking exactly this though I’ve never articulated it to myself so well." — Jan 30, 2026 02:07PM
"Yourcenar on behalf of Tommai dei Cavalieri, Michelangelo’s friend and possibly lover:
‘When men contemplate my picture, they will not ask who I was or what I did: they will praise me for having existed.”
I often look at a portrait in a gallery thinking exactly this though I’ve never articulated it to myself so well." — Jan 30, 2026 02:07PM
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"The four ‘natural environments’ which Yi-Fu Tuan believes ‘have figured prominently in humanity’s dreams of the ideal world’ are ‘the forest, the seashore, the valley, and the island’. Although suburbia tried to combine the forest, seashore and valley, it ended up recreating only the island… one that was cold, empty and isolated." — Jan 27, 2026 11:12AM
"The four ‘natural environments’ which Yi-Fu Tuan believes ‘have figured prominently in humanity’s dreams of the ideal world’ are ‘the forest, the seashore, the valley, and the island’. Although suburbia tried to combine the forest, seashore and valley, it ended up recreating only the island… one that was cold, empty and isolated." — Jan 27, 2026 11:12AM
“Le vrai pessimiste sait qu'il est déjà trop tard pour l'être.”
― L'Anomalie
― L'Anomalie
“a situation developed that had no clear beginning or end. It emerged and flowered and receded again over a day or a handful of days. He was old enough now to know that these situations, these flowering, which in youth seem almost identical to the forward-driving story of life, in fact turn out to be life itself. It was in these moments of hope and expectation and disillusion, of prelude, before the will decides to conscript the self into conformity, that they really lived.”
― Parade
― Parade
“Read the best writers from all different periods; keep your reading of contemporaries in proportion - you do not want a steady diet of contemporary literature. You already belong to your time.”
― Essays One
― Essays One
“Brodsky said, Darkness restores what light cannot repair.”
― Postcolonial Love Poem
― Postcolonial Love Poem
“We acquired things and used them and disposed of them. What we liked best was disposing of them. It felt like disposing the bad and burdensome parts of ourselves. It felt momentarily, like disposing of our own bodies. Sometimes we sensed that we were living counter to nature, were at odds with it, and this manifested itself as intolerable feeling of material chaos and disorder, to which a material solution could usually be found.”
― Parade
― Parade
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