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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 12h

Ook hij vertegenwoordigt het ingebakken mistige fatsoen waarom ik nooit op deze partij zal stemmen. Voordat je het weet zakken ze weer door de luie populistische stoel.

Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 13h

'The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world.'

'On Violence'

Hannah Arendt

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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 13h

'No government exclusively based on the means of violence has ever existed. Even the totalitarian ruler, whose chief instrument of rule is torture, needs a power basis—the secret police and its net of informers.'

'On Violence'

Hannah Arendt

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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 13h

'Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.'

'On Violence'

Hannah Arendt

btd 1906 d 1975

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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 1d

Sonja Barend is goud.
Gewoon eenvoudig onder woorden brengen dat je droevig bent omdat de vreugde over een aangekondigde vrede tegelijk een diepe teleurstelling en een ellendige toekomst betekent voor 'n paar miljoen mensen.

#PauwDeWit

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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 1d

Remember how often leaders have chosen to treat their friends like slaves—and then perished in the revolutions caused by their idiotic methods! How many powerful men have craved to dominate the world—and by overreaching have lost everything they once possessed!'

Xenophon

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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 1d

Remember how many statesmen have helped raise new leadership to power—and then been overthrown by their own protégés!

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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 1d

'Remember the lessons of history. Remember how often whole peoples have allowed themselves to be persuaded to go to war by ‘wise’ men—and then been utterly destroyed by the very enemy they agreed to attack!

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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 1d

Who owns peace ?

'The killings have mercifully stopped for now in Gaza, but there must be a refusal to normalise what will follow–
a return to a status quo in which we all keep on pretending that Palestinian life is viable under the authority of Israel'

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 2d

'Everything suggests that man today is more than ever a stranger living among strangers, and that the apparent communication of today's life – a communication that has no precedent – takes place not between real men but between their duplicates.'

Eugenio Montale

Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 2d

Well I didn't know, out of the prodigy
which opens up the divine Indifference:
It was the statue in its drowsiness
Noon, and the cloud, and the high hawk raised.'

Eugenio Montale

btd 1896 d 1981

#Italian #poet

Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 2d

'Often the evil of living I have met:
It was the choked stream that gurgles,
It was the wrapping of the leaf
Risa, it was the horse that was overwhelmed.

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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 2d

En nu ?

basvputten.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/z...

Zonnen en planeten

Wat kunst allemaal niet moet. Verbinden, confronteren en ontregelen, lange arm zijn van maatschappelijk debat over de grote vragen. De voorstelling van pure schoonheid lijkt verdampt. Door Ba…

basvputten.wordpress.com

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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 3d

Hartgrondig eens met deze prachtig geschreven onbewijsbare waarheid.

Want kunst zal, zoals ook liefde en schoonheid, altijd ontsnappen aan de grenzen van het nut en de uitleg van de voorzeggers.
Maar gun het vooral ieder kind als levensruimte voor de ziel.

basvputten.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/z...

basvputten.wordpress.com

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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 3d

R.I.P. Diane Keaton

📷 Norman Sieff, 1975

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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 3d

We seem to detest the old modern music.
So much better to love music, and be curious all the way.
There always is the present to discover eternal great music beyond time and place.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/a...

Did a Single Generation Ruin Modern Music for Everyone Else?

www.nytimes.com

Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 4d

'..se verrà un giorno in cui non si parlerà più né di melodia né di armonia né di scuole tedesche, italiane, né di passato né di avvenire ecc. allora forse comincierà il regno dell'arte.'

Giuseppe Verdi

btd 1813 d 1901

youtu.be/8nAZZAGeyIw?si…

📷Disdéri

Heartbreaking music

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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 4d

I'm really very relieved that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has not been susceptible to the pressure from the powerful of this world.

forbes.com/sites/eliasfer…

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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 5d

I’m searching for a teacher and a master
let him give me back my sight hearing and speech
let him name objects and concepts again
let him separate the light from the dark.

I’m twenty-four
Led to slaughter
I survived'

Tadeusz Różewicz
btd 1921 d 2014

#Polish #poet #writer

Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 5d

Concepts are only words:
virtue and vice
truth and lie
beauty and ugliness
courage and cowardice.

Virtue and vice weigh the same
I’ve seen:
a man who was both
vicious and virtuous.

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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 5d

Survivor

'I’m twenty-four
Led to slaughter
I survived.

These words are empty and equivalent:
man and animal
love and hate
foe and friend
dark and light.

Man is killed just like an animal
I’ve seen:
truckloads of chopped-up people
who will never be saved.

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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 5d

dit moest niet zo, dat moest niet daar, en niet nu maar later, en niet later maar nu, niet hiermee maar daarmee, niet zo hard, niet zo zacht, nooit was iets goed genoeg voor hem, terwijl hij al bijna vijf jaar met hem werkte,'

Zojuist begonnen.
Het is daverend onstuitbare taal.

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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 5d

'..want sinds de Boss er een stokje voor had gestoken dat hij bakker zou worden, en hem werk gaf in zijn zaak, waar hij ook gevelreiniger werd, had hij ontelbaar veel klappen van hem gekregen, om alles, want alles wat hij deed was verkeerd,

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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 5d

'On a pris la fâcheuse habitude de croire que, là où il y a des sons musicaux, il y a nécessairement de la musique.
Autant dire qu'il y a littérature partout où l'on bavarde, peinture partout où l'on barbouille'

Camille Saint-Saëns
btd 1835 d 1921

youtu.be/n53Zkd__F5c?si…

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Smendzianka @smendzianka.bsky.social · 5d

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