Death and Life by Edvard Munch
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Life and Death by Edvard Munch
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Madonna by Edvard Munch
Maybe we like to think different, but the world leaves us long before we leave it...for good.
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Experienced professionals?
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They would like to make us believe that their past isn't wasted, that their memories have been condensed and gently transformed into Wisdom. Convenient past! Pocket-size past, little gilt-edged book full of fine maxims. “Believe me, I’m talking from experience, I’ve learnt everything I know from life.” Are we to understand that Life has undertaken to think for them? They explain the new by the old - and the old they have explained by the older still […] when all is said and done, they have never understood anything at all…Behind their self-importance you can distinguish a morose laziness: they see a procession of semblances pass by, they yawn, they think there’s nothing new under the sun.
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Are we on the right road? Are we gaining knowledge? Are we approaching salvation? Or are we perhaps going in circles - we who thought to escape from the cycle?
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
After all these centuries of watching our domestic animals coming into the world, laboring and dying before our eyes without anything more unusual ever happening to them either than taking up the same insipid fiasco where so many other animals had left off, we should have caught on. Endless waves of useless beings keep rising from deep down in the ages to die in front of our noses, and yet here we stay, hoping for something...
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Passage, Temple (Life) by H.R. Giger
The Beginning of Life by František Kupka
thusreluctant reblogged
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Steel engravings of London by Gustavo Doré
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