Angel of History

Klee’s Angelus Novus, Uploaded by baotzebao
 
“A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the [...]

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Crippled

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Photograph by pl9300
 
…and if I could not read or write I would be crippled
the soul of words…
if this sight could not recognize the little shapes I saw before me…
if this heart could not feel their essence as I felt the world around me…
if this mind could not understand their meaning, grasp it’s power…
if this hand trembled at [...]

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Tradegy

Photograph by RengimMutevellioglu
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
- Arnold Bennett

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The Loss of Time

Photograph by sc-jurgen
“We take no note of time
But from its loss.”
- Edward Young

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Unhappy Happiness

Photograph by Jeff Rinehart
 
“Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we [...]

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Passages

Photograph by ryan loucks photography
 
Sometimes I write down passages from the books I read for the sheer beauty in which the words are written. Sometimes they are a mere three words and sometimes whole pages.
Sometimes it is the simplicity of the words that carry the complexity of a lifetime. And sometimes it is the complexity of [...]

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The Burden of Nothing

 
Photograph by Ana Santos
There are times when a body is so tired that even the mind feels its burden. The vitals that ought to function do so only as to assure that the basest form of survival is met. That the heart beats and the lungs take and give what they ought. There is no [...]

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Nothing More

Photograph by Lumase
“Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say.”
He said.
“Nothing more, never.”
- Alessandro Baricco (Silk p. 52)

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The Sight of Rain

 

Photograph by ~~Mandana~~
 
When it rains and the earth is in its dark mood as today I begin to feel my soul lighten. I have forgone the umbrella just to feel the droplets on my face. They are ticklish and cold. And you can see them wetting this page. They covered my glasses so I see through [...]

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Between Here & The Horizon

Photograph by Ilina S.
“He could make out Hara Kei’s palace on the far side of the village, barely larger than the other houses, but surrounded by huge cedars that protected its solitude. Herve Joncour continued to look at it, as though there stood nothing else between here and the horizon. Thus he saw,
finally,
suddenly,
the sky above the [...]

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Give me…

Photograph by sam_samantha
 
give me light
if it be darkness illuminated
give me then darkness
if darkness be thy sight
give me thy vision
if a vision be that of beauty
give me then the world in glory
if glory be a tune of stillness
give me then the raising of the early dawn
and if there be nothing for you to give me
give me then [...]

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