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ineffablequality: ““ “I’m 87 years old…I only eat so I can smoke and stay alive.. The only fear I have is how long consciousness is gonna hang on after my body goes. I just hope there’s nothing. Like there was before I was born. I’m not really into...

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“I’m 87 years old…I only eat so I can smoke and stay alive.. The only fear I have is how long consciousness is gonna hang on after my body goes. I just hope there’s nothing. Like there was before I was born. I’m not really into religion, they’re all macrocosms of the ego. When man began to think he was a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation.

The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.

Anybody else you’ve interviewed bring these things up? Hang on, I gotta take this call….. Hey, brother. That’s great, man. Yeah, I’m being interviewed… We’re talking about nothing. I’ve got him well-steeped in nothing right now. He’s stopped asking questions.”

- HARRY DEAN STANTON

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Elegy

differentpushkin:

My years of crazy partying are over.
Their memory is just a faint hangover.
Yet, like old wine, the pain of bygone days
Gets ever stronger; in my soul it stays.
My path is desolate. It’s full of toil and sorrow,
The leaden, choppy sea of my tomorrow.

And yet, my friends, I do not wish to die,
I want to live, to meditate, to cry.
I trust some simple pleasures will be due me
Amid the cares and hardships that pursue me:
There will be harmony to relish yet again
And tales to make my tears run down like rain.
And at the end, with daylight growing dimmer,  
Love’s farewell smile, perhaps, will briefly glimmer.

Anonymous asked:Do you believe Renoir is a lesser artist because of his views about women/Jews?
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womeninarthistory:

Definitely. I don’t know how someone could look at the person he was and still appreciate his work. Yes technique and talent is important but there is so much more to art, and if an artist has those sexist/racist views that shows through their work. 

Just google Renoir then Morisot and look at their work side by side. They both use painterly brush strokes, they have the same subject matter, landscapes, women, and children. but look at the women look at what they are doing, look at how their forms and figures are represented. Renoir’s women sexualized, feminized, and look like they have blank doll faces like there isn’t a thought in their head, their only purpose is to be looked at. Now look at Morisot, who was a woman, Her subjects have life behind their eyes, They are more active. Yes they are still in ‘female spheres” like indoors, in parks or gardens but they are using their space, not simply an object placed within it.