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“…Things I hold most dear: music, nature, poetry, solitude.”
– Marina Tsvetayeva in a letter to Boris Pasternak, from Letters: Summer 1926 – Boris Pasternak Marina Tsvetayeva Rainer Maria Rilke
Early manuscript detail from Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary
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“Art is the highest form of hope.”
— Gerhard Richter
Embroidered perfection at Dior Couture, Fall 2012
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“Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
-Epictetus
Yulia Manjeles in Eifman’s Russian Hamlet.
photography: Nikolay Krusser
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“Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.”
– Anthony Marra, A Constellation Of Vital Phenomena
Joanna Newsom
“The stars look at us, with their distant light,
their giddiness, in their nests of nothing”
– Göran Sonnevi, from Mozart’s Third Brain, transl. by Rika Lesser
Evelyn Tripp models a Christian Dior gown for a photo by Erwin Blumenfeld
Paris, 1949