Forwarded from 1983
Private Art
Reza Abbasi "Two Lovers" 1630
When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.
Rumi
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.
Rumi
"In these days, negation is the most useful thing of all—and so we deny."
"Everything?"
"Everything."
"What? Not only art, poetry... But also... I am afraid to say it..."
"Everything," Bazarov repeated with inexpressible calm.
"Everything?"
"Everything."
"What? Not only art, poetry... But also... I am afraid to say it..."
"Everything," Bazarov repeated with inexpressible calm.
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"In these days, negation is the most useful thing of all—and so we deny." "Everything?" "Everything." "What? Not only art, poetry... But also... I am afraid to say it..." "Everything," Bazarov repeated with inexpressible calm.
- Fathers and sons, by Ivan Turgenev. It was one of the earliest "nihilistic" novels in Russian literature, manifested by its character Bazarov.