"It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me." ― Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods

“No one had taught us how to be free. We had only ever been taught how to die for freedom.” ― Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: An Oral History of the Fall of the Soviet Union #BookSky #NobelPrize

#Photography Martin Parr, from The Last Resort New Brighton, England 1983-85. /Magnum Photos

'Let’s be honest,' she said,' if they’re not mixed, they’re probably not feelings'.

#Photography Steve McCurry, Shaolin (Kung-Fu) monastery, Zhengzhou, China.

How can we rely on leaders like Trump and Putin? We should be ashamed of ourselves.

"I see Earth! It is so beautiful!" ― Yuri Gagarin (1961)

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. ― William Shakespeare

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free, that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” — George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

#Music Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Elevation of Love. #Jazz (Live) youtu.be/HWS-TgLDt38?...

I see dead people. When? All the time.

Tanztheater Wuppertal. #Dance

Your hiding-place isn't watertight. Life trickles in everywhere.

Ingmar Bergman.

Visibility is a trap. ― Michel Foucault

The Road Not Taken. #Poetry Robert Frost

Shana & Robert ParkeHarrison #Photography

Habitants délicats des forêts de nous-mêmes...

On the Nature Of Daylight. #Music Max Richter, Studio Version. youtu.be/b_YHE4Sx-08?...

Spring. #Dance Tanztheater Wuppertal

We didn't build our bridges simply to avoid walking on water.

#Photography Christer Strömholm (1961), Cobra & Caprice, Paris.

"I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the Earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. (1)

What do they say? They talk about their lives. To have lived is not enough for them. They have to talk about it. (From Samuel Beckett's, "Waiting for Godot") #Sculpture Igor Mitoraj

A boy's best friend is his mother. #Film Psycho (1960)

"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes." -- Dylan Thomas (Letter to Editor) #Poetry

And you’ll always love me won’t you? Yes. And the rain won’t make any difference? No. ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms #BookSky

Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I want to see him. ― Søren Kierkegaard (The father of existentialism).

#Sculpture Liu Bolin

If you gaze long into art, the Art also gazes into you. You have been warned.

#Sculpture Anthony Gormley 502 Bad Gateway

#Photography Matt Black, from his series "The Geography of Poverty". /Magnum Photos

“Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.” ―José Saramago, Blindness #BookSky

"The skin is a variety of contingency: in it, through it, with it, the world and my body touch each other." ― Michel Serres, The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies #BookSky

“He was doing quite well until the last sentence, but if you bare your arse to a vengeful unicorn, the number of possible outcomes dwindles to one.” ― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks #BookSky