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The trouble with being born

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From No Pain Whatsoever

Ken Grant
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Human, all too human 
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That's the thing about Leidenschaft

The word Passion can not fully translate the meaning of the word Leidenschaft, since Leidenschaft consists of "Leiden", pain, and Schaft, which in this case translates to the process of creating something.

This sentence, taken literally or considering what I just told you about Leidenschaft means our body craves this form of engagement with pain, and I think that's another interesting layer to it.
Hey Cupid, Heinrich Füssli
Being. Since the word is inaccurate, it is crossed out. Since it is necessary, it is left legible.

Martin Heidegger, in a letter to Ernst Junger, 1956
Guillaume Apollinaire, tr. by Anne Hyde Greet, from Calligrams; “Refusal of the Dove,”
Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro in The Deer Hunter (1978) dir. Michael Cimino
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ID: an excerpt from ‘Breathturn,’ by Paul Celan
How desperately I have wished for memories to be eternal, but eternity exists only insofar as it buries itself in smaller things. The photograph will exist longer than I can ever remember its being taken. Even the candle which burns exists longer than my recollection of the candle or its burning—it exists but is transmogrified.

In this way, in smaller things, it is buried. In this way, maybe, I am buried too.

Dedicated to Jacqueline Winter Thomas (March 23, 1991 – April 18, 2019).
Cuadecuc, Vampir (Pere Portabella, 1971)