Villa Farnese, Italy
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“A golden cage is still just a cage.”
-Anita Krizzan
𝚂𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚊𝚗 𝙻𝚎 𝙵𝚊𝚗𝚞, 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊 (𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝟷𝟾𝟽𝟸)
“Quiet, yet wild. Rough, and yet gentle,”
— Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems; “Child,”
“There was a grand piano, too, and Charles was playing, a glass of whiskey on the seat beside him. He was a little drunk; the Chopin was slurred and fluid, the notes melting sleepily into one another. A breeze stirred the heavy, moth-eaten velvet curtains, ruffling his hair.”
23.12.19 Manchester
“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” - Oscar Wilde
Charles Macaulay
The secret history
“And you are my sacred book. My poem.”
– Umar Timol, from “Blood”, translated by Susan Wicks
"Pleasure and thrill are conducive to sadness after the so-called peak has been reached; for the thrill has been experienced, but the vessel has not grown."
-Erich Fromm; To Have or to Be?
The greatest pleasure of life is sensation,
To feel that we exist,
Even in pain.
-Lord Byron