the goal of social media (particularly instagram)
to carefully curate and craft a visual version of one’s life so that anyone who sees it will think of them a certain way and be jealous and want to live their life and envy it and hate their own
–Erica Jong
“The constant bombardment. Democracy’s dilemma : to learn how to choose.” Survey Graphic. October 1939. Wilfrid Jones, illus.
Colors by nature : paints by Pittsburgh. 1939. Product catalogue, back cover detail.
World of Tomorrow (2015) dir. Don Hertzfeldt
"Deep inside me, the Spanish solitude. Man does not escape from it but for a few “instants,” then he returns to his island."
— Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959
(Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 2008;
first published 1989)
"My soul lives alone. I love only in absence of recognition or pity. Let us not do harm, but remember also that I cannot live from the depths of my heart with anyone."
— Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959
(Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 2008;
first published 1989)
American Samoa. Annual report of the Secretary of the Interior. 1962.
Paul Newman photographed by Eva Sereny at his home, 1981.
Vida en sombras (Llorenç Llobet-Gràcia, 1948)
strawberry moon 2016 over fuentes
"Life continues and, some mornings, tired of the noise, discouraged by the interminable work to be done, sick of this crazy world which assails you even as you pick up the newspaper, finally sure that I will not be up to it and that I will disappoint everyone, I want only to sit and wait until evening arrives. I have this desire, and sometimes I give in to it."
— Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959
(Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 2008;
first published 1989)
Vida en sombras (Llorenç Llobet-Gràcia, 1948)
"No relationship can truly grow if you go on holding back. If you remain clever and go on safeguarding and protecting yourself, only personalities meet, and the essential centers remain alone. Then only your mask is related, not you. Whenever such a thing happens, there are four persons in the relationship, not two. Two false persons go on meeting, and the two real persons remain worlds apart."
— Osho
(via purplebuddhaquotes)
“The study of the nature of consciousness is perhaps the most powerful and pure of all spiritual pathways because it becomes self-correcting and self-propelling.”
—David R. Hawkins, from The Eye of the I