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inneroptics:

FRANCESCA WOODMAN

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"I had to learn painfully that people continued to exist even when they had nothing more to say to me."

Carl Jung, from “Memories, Dreams and Reflections” (via devilduck)

"I hadn’t gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. You get older, you puff on the stairs, you enter the body of your father. From there it’s only a quick jump to your grandparents, and then before you know it you’re time-traveling. In this life we grow backwards."

Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (via devilduck)

"With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future."

Yohji Yamamoto  (via lavandula)

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“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods, or space travelers, instead of by thousands toiling in the sun. Such thinking robs our forerunners of their due, and us of their experience. Because then one can believe whatever one likes about the past - without having to confront the bones, potsherds, and inscriptions which tell us that people all over the world, time and again, have made similar advances and mistakes.” "

Ronald Wright, Canadian writer, historian, archeologist, A Short History of Progress, House of Anansi Press, 2004. (Illustration: The Colossus of Rhodes)

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"As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes."

Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid’s Tale  (via finiteworldinfinitedreams)

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Thinking of my college mentor Jim Carlson who passed away this past weekend after 94 years on planet Earth. I am most thankful that he appeared in my life at the perfect right moment and initiated me and so many into the world of theatre dance art creation and the sacred. As a Quaker he demonstrated that the love of Christ isn’t just words.

“Pippin: I didn’t think it would end this way.
Gandalf: End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path… One that we all must take. The grey rain curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass. And then you see it.
Pippin: What, Gandalf? See what?
Gandalf: White shores… And beyond. A far green country, under a swift sunrise.
Pippin: Well… That isn’t so bad.
Gandalf: No. No, it isn’t.”

Farewell to a fabulous human being.

“For someone like me, it is a very strange habit to write in a diary. Not only that I have never written before, but it strikes me that later neither I, nor anyone else, will care for the outpouring of a thirteen year old schoolgirl.”

Anne Frank

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theviscountess:

This is quite an amazing photograph.

liquidnight:

Louis Faurer

Untitled, 1950

From Louis Faurer

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fer1972:

Eraser by  woodcum

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"The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.”
― William Faulkner"

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sealmaiden:

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