“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. all these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
—Fernando Pessoa
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Painting detail. Oil on unprimed mdf board. You can have a look at my other work here http://henrychristianslane.tumblr.com/
“I would like to write a book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.”
—Antonin Artaud, from Selected Writings, edited by Susan Sontag (University of California Press, 1988)
Paul Gauguin - La vita e la morte (Bagnanti), 1889
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“My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.”
—Hermann Hesse
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“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (via mycolorbook)
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I have no ambitions nor desires.
To be a poet is not my ambition,
It’s simply my way of being alone.—Alberto Caeiro, from “The Keeper of Herds” (O Guardador de Rebanhos), translated from the Portuguese by Richard Zenith.
