Human, all too human 

Dora Maar

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

Off-topic

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).

When you've been pushing hard trying to find motivation, you'll find out that you were motivated enough to keep yourself going and looking for that motivation for years, and when you find this out, the next thing you gotta look for is a route. You don't need a way out of it because you're already out of it and you don't need to feel constantly good to do anything because drugs have already proven to you that feeling that good is a fleeting thing and you never really do anything worthwhile with yourself while you're feeling "good". You're basically a dart that's going way too fast, thinking about how to find "something that will give you the energy to hit the bullseye", but all you're missing is the choice of which dartboard you wanna hit. After all, you're already in mid-air, going faster than you wish you were.

Pulsating RS Puppis, the brightest star in the image center, is some ten times more massive than our Sun and on average 15,000 times more luminous. In fact, RS Pup is a Cepheid variable star, a class of stars whose brightness is used to estimate distances to nearby galaxies as one of the first steps in establishing the cosmic distance scale. As RS Pup pulsates over a period of about 40 days, its regular changes in brightness are also seen along its surrounding nebula delayed in time, effectively a light echo.

Off-topic.

The man on the right is Pentti Linkola

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentti_Linkola

@beadymanor

”To realize that all your life—you know, all your love, all your hate, all your memories, all your pain—it was all the same thing. It was all the same dream, a dream that you had inside a locked room, a dream about being a person.”