"Every work of art is an uncommitted crime." - #Adorno

Staying busy

"Art is never a copy of reality, but a guide, a direction towards a deeper comprehension of reality." - #Perniola

Science is the process by which magic becomes known phys.org/news/2025-02-p…

"I can only ever provide her freedom with opportunities to show itself, without ever managing to increase or to decrease it, to direct it or to take hold of it." - #Sartre

"Would I could cast a sail on the water Where many a king has gone And many a king's daughter And alight at the comely trees & the lawn The playing upon pipes & the dancing And learn that the best thing is To change my loves while dancing And pay but a kiss for a kiss." -#Yeats

"...just here and there, separated by shadows thick and unexplored...discovered by a few great artists who do us the service...of showing us what richness, what variety lies hidden, unbeknownst to us, within that great unfathomed and alarming night of our soul..." - #Proust

"Beneath the sky of the aesthetic everything is light, pleasant, and fleeting; when ethics comes along everything becomes hard, angular, an unending ennui." - #Kierkegaard

"We have found the fundamental act of freedom, the act that gives its meaning to any action I may consider: this constantly renewed act cannot be distinguished from my being; it is the choice of myself in the world and, by the same token, my discovery of the world." - #Sartre

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"Only a cunning intertwining of pleasure and work leaves real experience still open, under the pressure of society." - #Adorno

First swim of the year.

"Man is bound to follow the adventurous promptings of his scientific mind & admire himself for his achievements... His genius shows the uncanny tendency to invent things that become more & more dangerous, because they represent better & better means for wholesale suicide." #Jung

"They traveled without bread or vessels, hoping for the sea that they always seek, gnawing the Ideal's sour golden lemon. Most perished in the dark beneath the peak, ravished with bliss to see their own blood spilling, ah Death, sole kiss for mouths that cannot speak." #Mallarmé

"Alas, my throng of friends are blown, and their First answering voices with them died. Now I perform to strangers as a stranger, Even their approval makes my heart afraid And those to whom my songs gave any joy If they still live are scattered and astray." - #Goethe #Faust

"Of all her children, faith loves miracle best." - #Faust #Goethe

Brutalism is a warning about the future delivered from the past.

"It has been found again. What ? - Eternity. It is the sea fled away With the sun. Sentinel soul, Let us whisper the confession Of the night full of nothingness And the day on fire. From human approbation, From common urges You diverge here And fly off as you may..." - #Rimbaud

"If ever I settle on a bed of ease Let me be done for there and then. If you, by lying flattery, can please Me with myself and can impose, By means of pleasure, in my mind - There and then let my days end. I offer you this wager." - #Goethe #Faust

"The contemporary form of authentic greatness is a civilization built on the spirituality of work." - #SimoneWeil