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‘This is a quantum universe,’ said Spike, ‘neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.’ ‘What do you suggest I do ― to intervene?’ Spike leaned forward and kissed me. ‘Bend the light.’ ― Jeanette Winterson

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Maria.

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Outdoor text.

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Ok.

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#Photography Małgorzata Sajur

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(2) 'The Animal that Therefore I am'. In the text, he examines what we really mean when we call our fellow creatures ‘animals’, and he criticizes our treatment of them. True story.

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Every morning 'Logos' followed the philosopher Jacques Derrida into the bathroom and watched his morning routine. Logos’ analytical gaze made Derrida uncomfortable. It seemed to say: ‘Who are you to call me an ‘animal’?’ Derrida couldn’t stop thinking about it. It led him to write (1)

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#Photography Jacques Derrida with 'Logos'.

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Soldati

Si sta come
d’autunno

sugli alberi
le foglie

(Soldiers
One is as
in autumn
on the trees
the leaves.)

― Giuseppe Ungaretti, "Soldati".
#Poetry
(Written in the trenches during the First World War, the war that was supposed to end all wars.)

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#Photography Mario Giacomelli

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#Photography Martin Parr, Wales, UK. /Magnum Photos

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“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro
(Interview)

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#Photography Sabine Fischer, self-portrait.

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"There seemed nothing to do but live."
― J. M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
#BookSky

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#Photography Sebastião Salgado (1986), Serra Pelada gold mine, Brazil.

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#Photography Bernard Plossu (1966), Mexico.

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“One moment you're carrying this loveable little tyke on your shoulders, the next she's off, and you realize what you suspected all along: however much you love them, your own children are only ever on loan.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
#Photography Édouard Boubat, Nazaré, Portugal.

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Nirvana.
#Photography Hsiao-Yang Fei (2022).

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Meanwhile in editing.

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That was harsh.

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"... couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?"
-- Michel Foucault, On the Genealogy of Ethics
#BookSky
#Photography Raymond Depardon, Rotterdam.

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You said your name was Alice?

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#StreetArt Banksy, Ukraine.

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(2) It is necessary and not at all shameful to take pleasure in the little world.”
― Fanny and Alexander (1982), written and directed by Ingmar Bergman
#FilmSky