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The trouble with being born

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"Za Vas"


Could be translated as "I stand by your side".

A military-related tattoo.
Street vendor selling mummies in Egypt, 1865
Ernst Haas, A cloudy Night over the Western Skies Motor Motel, Colorado, 1978
Happy Christmas from bad times:
You are the Christmas of the outlaws,
Of those who laugh in disgrace,
Poor buggers who are betrayed,
And children of good race.
Saul Leiter, Christmas, 1950
Christmas in Alberta, 1968
Shell, Route 40, Catonsville, Md
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“To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression.
I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.”

― Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born
An excerpt from a speech by Paul Celan delivered on the occasion of receiving the Georg Büchner Prize, October 22, 1960. (from Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry: A Bilingual Edition, trans. Pierre Joris)
Inside a Boeing 737-300 cabin in 1998
December Night
Forwarded from abstentis
"I'd ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, to have that love for her, be there forever, through anything. [...]
You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself."