"if you look at the four seasons, each season brings fruit... you want to give that all up? you want to give up the taste of cherries?" taste of cherry, abbas kiarostami

To hell, to hell with balance! I break glasses; I want to burn, even if I break myself. I live only for ecstasy. Nothing else affects me. Small doses, moderate loves, all the demi-teintes—all these leave me cold.

Am I making you feel sick? Am I making you feel sick?

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) Director: Philip Kaufman

I think about this paragraph so often James Baldwin for Life Magazine, 1963

Madonna in a Fur Coat, Sabahattin Ali

Here's a video I made breaking down one the most impressive X-Rays of this medical emergency you will ever see #FOAMed

"As for myself, I am splintered by great waves. I am coloured glass from a church window long since shattered. I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them." -- Jeanette Winterson, 'Lighthousekeeping' #Literature

Borges knew this long ago:

“But, he said to himself, whether they knew or didn’t know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn’t know. Is a fool on the throne relieved of all responsibility merely because he is a fool?”

Nietzsche’s Razor: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by narcissism

On Monday we go for a reading date!

“I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again.”